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The Theatre of the Absurd

Paperback • 2004 • English • 3. edition

The Theatre of the Absurd

By Martin Esslin

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About the book

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 proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. ...Show more

Theatre studies
Theatre direction and production
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Book details

ISBN

9781400075232

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

3

Original title

The Theatre of the Absurd

Format

Paperback

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