(1910-11-19)November 19, 1910 Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died
April 19, 2001(2001-04-19) (aged 90) Manhattan, New York City, New York
Occupation
Dramatist
Notable works
Metatheater
Lionel Abel (28 November 1910- 19 April 2001, in Manhattan, New York)[1] was an eminent Jewish American[2] playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also a translator, and was an authorized translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Abel the most intelligent man in New York City.
His first success was a tragedy, Absalom, staged off-Broadway in 1956 and winner of the Obie award.[3] It was followed by three other works of drama, before he turned to criticism. He is best known for coining the term metatheatre in his book of the same title.[4]
He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.[5]
^Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. "Lionel Abel." Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia (2013): Research Starters. Web. 11 July 2014.
^Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (2004). Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. Yale University Press. p. 360. ISBN 0-300-10588-6.
^Van Gelder, Lawrence (April 25, 2001). "Lionel Abel, 90, Playwright and Essayist". The New York Times.
^Lionel Abel (2003). Tragedy and metatheatre: essays on dramatic form. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 978-0-8419-1352-3.
^"Humanist Manifesto II". American Humanist Association. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
LionelAbel (28 November 1910- 19 April 2001, in Manhattan, New York) was an eminent Jewish American playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also...
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Edwards (1985, 5). Abel 2003, p.172. Abel 1963, p.65 Abel, Lionel. 1963. Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form. Hill and Wang. Abel, Lionel. 2003 [posthumous]...
hatred and disgust" and "the merest trash, not worth a second glance". LionelAbel compared the work to a film that spliced together pornography with footage...
Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands, in Three Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. LionelAbel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 121. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust...
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secondary schools; and he translated American critics and writers such as LionelAbel, Leslie Fiedler, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, James Baldwin, and...
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political leader and son of an Imam. Ahmadu Tall – son of El Hadj Umar Tall. LionelAbel and Raziel Abelson, both sons of Rabbi Alter Abelson. Felix Adler (professor)...
Paalen to André Breton, Mai 3rd, 1940 (Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris) see LionelAbel: The Intellectual Follies. A Memoir of the Literary Venture in New York...
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a British Army orchestra, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, Sir Bryn Terfel, Alexis Ffrench, Zak Abel, Take That featuring Robin Schulz and Calum...
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and Carlene Polite; and critics Albert Spaulding Cook, Leslie Fiedler, LionelAbel, and Dwight Macdonald. For the English department, he has served as director...
discretion. He used this freedom not only to hire a distinguished faculty (LionelAbel, C.L. Barber, John Barth, Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Irving Feldman...
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