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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101472577027

ISBN-139781472577023

eBay Product ID (ePID)208718485

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTheatre of the Absurd

Publication Year2014

SubjectDrama, European / General, Theater / Playwriting

TypeTextbook

AuthorMartin Esslin

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts

SeriesBloomsbury Revelations Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight18.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition18

Dewey Decimal809.2

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Foreword Forty Years On Introduction: The Absurdity of the Absurd 1. Samuel Beckett: The Search for the Self 2. Arthur Adamov: The Curable and the Incurable 3. Eugene Ionesco: Theatre and Anti-Theatre 4. Jean Genet: A Hall of Mirrors 5. Harold Pinter: Certainties and Uncertainties 6. Parallels and Proselytes 7. The Tradition of the Absurd 8. The Significance of the Absurd 9. Beyond the Absurd Bibliography 1: The Dramatists of the Absurd Bibliography 2: Background and History of the Theatre of the Absurd Index

SynopsisThe 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eug.ne Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin's landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, The Theatre of the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing., The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eug ne Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin's landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, The Theatre of the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing., The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin's landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, The Theatre of the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing.

LC Classification NumberPN1861