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The Theatre Of The Absurd (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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The Theatre Of The Absurd (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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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 languages and seen by more than a
million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence
of a new type of theatre whose proponents--Beckett, Ionesco, Genet,
Pinter, and others--shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant
attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their
characters' inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin
Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of
these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the
human condition.
Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin's landmark
book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists
raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are
still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett's
tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road
for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative,
engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is
nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an
interest in the theatre.
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