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Rethinking the theatre of the absurd : ecology, the environment and the greening of the modern stage / edited by Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh.

Contributor(s): Lavery, Carl, 1969- [editor.] | Finburgh, Clare [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Methuen Drama engagePublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2015Description: 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472506672 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Theater of the absurd -- History and criticism | Ecocriticism | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.2'04 Summary: This innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shephard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text 'The Theatre of the Absurd', which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century.
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This innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shephard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text 'The Theatre of the Absurd', which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century.

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