Literature Criticism
Literature Criticism Databases
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.
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MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost)Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
Books
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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre & Literature of the Absurd
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." -
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, & Pinter
Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN1861.B44 2011NOTE: Online access is limited regarding total users.
"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
- Griselda Gambaro – Antígona Furiosa, The Walls