Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter

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Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter

Michael Y. Bennett

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, c2011

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"First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [167]-176

Includes index

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内容説明

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.

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Introduction: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd 'The Parable of Estagon's Struggle with the Boot' in Waiting for Godot The Pinteresque Oedipal Household: The Interrogation Scene(s) in The Birthday Party The Parable of the White Clown: The Use of Ritual in Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show Berenger, The Sisyphean Hero Conclusion: Theorizing a 'Female Absurd' in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart as a Means of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd

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