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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... read more
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On 19 November 1957, a group of worried actors were preparing to face their audience.
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Acknowledgements
Foreword Forty Years On
Preface (1961)
Introduction: The absurdity of the Absurd
1. Samuel Beckett: The search for the self
2. Arthur Adamov: The curable and the incurable
3. Eugène Ionesco: Theatre and anti-theatre
4. Jean Genet: A hall of mirrors
5. Harold Pinter: Certainties and uncertainties.
6. Parallels and Proselytes
-Jean Tardieu
-Boris Vian
-Dino Buzzati
-Ezio d'Errico
-Manuel de Pedrolo
-Fernando Arrabal
-Max Frisch
-Wolfgang Hildesheimer
-Günter Grass
-Robert Pinget
-Norman Frederick Simpson
-Edward Albee
-Jack Gelber
-Arthur L. Kopit
-The Theatre of the Absurd in Eastern Europe
-Slawomir Mrozek
-Tadeusz Rózewicz
-Václav Havel
7. The Tradition of the Absurd
8. The Significance of the Absurd
9. Beyond the Absurd
Bibliography
1. The dramatists of the Absurd
2. Background and history of the Theatre of the Absurd
Index
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- Martin Esslin (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: Spring 1961
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- Dewey: 809.204
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