Martin Orkin

(19**-19**) Critic, researcher and lecturer in English literature at the University of the Witwatersrand till 199*. ***

He wrote and lectured extensively on South African drama, publishing two widely acclaimed books based on his lectures, namely Shakespeare Against Apartheid (a study of the way Shakespeare is taught in a de-politicized way in South Africa, 1989) and Drama and the South African State (1991). He also edited and wrote a useful introduction to At the Junction: Four Plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company (1995). In 199* he emigrated to Israel, to teach at the University of Tel Aviv **??.

In 1992 he was awarded a National Vita Award for theatre research.

Sources

NELM catalogue.

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