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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2004-01-06
- Edition Number
- 3
- Pages
- 482
- ISBN
- 9781400075232
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400075238
ISBN-13
9781400075232
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6040581
Product Key Features
Edition
3
Book Title
Theatre of the Absurd
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Storytelling
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-268174
Dewey Edition
18
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Exciting and stimulating...a very useful reference work and a standard text book." -Literary Review, "Exciting and stimulating...a very useful reference work and a standard text book." - Literary Review
Dewey Decimal
809.2
Synopsis
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. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin's landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett's tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.
LC Classification Number
PN1861
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