Quote of the day
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Lionel Abel

Born: November 19, 1910
Died: April 19, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Lionel Abel was an eminent Jewish American 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.
Known for:
- Metatheatre (1963)
- Tragedy and metatheatre
- The intellectual follies (1984)
- Important nonsense (1987)






