TCLC 38: 339-415
- "The Theatre of the Absurd," 340-47
- major plays & playwrights, 347-58
- and the concept of the absurd, 358-86
- theatrical techniques, 386-94
- predecessors of, 394-402
- influence of, 402-13
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Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN1861.B43 2015
"Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, Bennett provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard."
Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN1861.B44 2011
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"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."
Notable Plays
Theatre of the Absurd and Other Mid-century Work
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot, Play, Krapp’s Last Tape, Footfalls, Not I, Catastrophe, Happy Days, Endgame, What Where
Albert Camus – The Just Assassins, Caligula
Jean Genet – The Blacks, The Balcony, The Maids, Deathwatch, The Screens
Václav Havel – The Memorandum, The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros, The Lesson, Macbett
Federico García Lorca – The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Yerma
Sławomir Mrożek – The Police, Strip-tease, Tango, Love in the Crimea
Harold Pinter – The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, The Dumb Waiter, Old Times, Betrayal
Edward Albee – The Zoo Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Seascape, A Delicate Balance