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Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre MRI Combining an extensive review ofThis is a study of one of theatre's quietest but most radical innovators. The playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 1949) has been called the prodigal father of the Theatre of the Absurd. Admired by writers as diverse as Mallarm and Yeats, Artaud and Strindberg, Chekhov and Jarry, Maeterlinck was the most celebrated avant garde playwright of his day. By 1900 he had given theatre a new set of bearings: 'static theatre', 'the theatre