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Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin (2004, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400075238

ISBN-139781400075232

eBay Product ID (ePID)6040581

Product Key Features

Edition3

Book TitleTheatre of the Absurd

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDrama, Theater / History & Criticism, Storytelling

Publication Year2004

GenreLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts

AuthorMartin Esslin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-268174

Dewey Edition18

TitleLeadingThe

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 Decimal809.2

SynopsisIn 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 NumberPN1861