Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd
Author: M. Bennett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230118828

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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 book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.


Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: M. Bennett
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-25 - Publisher: Springer

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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
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: M. Bennett
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-25 - Publisher: Springer

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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
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
Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Michael Y. Bennett
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Rodopi

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While Oscar Wilde’s delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde’s most “serious”
Laughing Fit to Kill
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Glenda Carpio
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed var