Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter / Michael Y. Bennett.
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TextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xii, 179 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137378767 (pbk.) :Subject(s): European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theater of the absurd | Absurd (Philosophy) in literatureDDC classification: 809.2'04 Summary: Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's 'The Theatre of the Absurd', which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, Michael Y. Bennett's 'Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd' is a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's 'The Theatre of the Absurd', which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, Michael Y. Bennett's 'Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd' is a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.
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