TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Michael Y. TI - Reassessing the theatre of the absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter SN - 9781137378767 (pbk.) : U1 - 809.2'04 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - European drama KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Theater of the absurd KW - Absurd (Philosophy) in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 ER -