The Theatre of the Absurd
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 23 October 2014
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472577023
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 216x138x24 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
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
