| Title : | The theatre of the absurd |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Martin Esslin, Author |
| Publisher: | London : Methuen Drama |
| Publication Date: | 2001 |
| Pagination: | 480 p. |
| Size: | 20 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-413-76050-0 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-470) and index |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Drama - 20th century
History and criticism
Theatre of the absurd.
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| Class number: | 809.2 |
| Abstract: | "The theatre of the absurd" -presents a study of the playwrights who have dramatized the absurdity of the human condition. This play seeks to show how Beckett; Ionesco; Genet; Pinter and others have confronted a world in which there is no communication and where man flounders in a void; cut off from his roots and shorn of all certainties. |
| Contents note: | Introduction: the absurdity of the Absurd; Samuel Beckett : the search for the self; Arthur Adamov : the curable and the incurable; Bugene Ionesco : theatre and anti-theatre; Jean Genet : a hall of mirrors; Harold Pinter : certainties and uncertainties; Parallels and proselytes; The tradition of the absurd; The significance of the absurd; Beyond the absurd; The dramatists of the absurd; Background and history of the theatre of the absurd; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13412 |
