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The Theatre of the Absurd
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Martin Esslin
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-02 - Publisher: Vintage

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In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty
Modern Literature and the Tragic
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: K. M. Newton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-20 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentiet
Three Plays of the Absurd
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Walter Wykes
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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In this collection of plays, Walter Wykes creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: M. Bennett
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-31 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this bo
An Approach to Absurd Theatre in the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Pradip Lahiri
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-07 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The present study contributes to the corpus of later 20th-century drama and theatre, examining how absurdist theatre works to show the playwrights’ deep insig