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Theatre of the Absurd

Practitioners: Samuel Beckett, Robert Wilson, Martin Esslin, Arthur Adamov, Edward Albee

· Each of the playwrights concerned seeks to express no more and no less his own personal vision of the world.

· A term like the Theatre of the Absurd must therefore be understood as a kind of intellectual shorthand for a complex pattern of similarities in approach, method, and convention, of shared philosophical and artistic premises, whether conscious or subconscious, and of influences from a common store of tradition

NOTES:

Practitioners: Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Fernando Arrabal, Edward Albee

Plays: Jean Genet’s “The Maids”, “The Balcony”, and “The Blacks”, Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” and “Rhinoceros”, Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, “Endgame”, “Krapp’s Last Tape”, “Happy Days” and “Catastrophe”, Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, Fernando Arrabel’s “Picnic on the Battlefield” and “Automobile Graveyard”, Harold Pinter’s “The Room” and “The Homecoming” and Peter Weiss’s “Marat/Sade”.

Theorists: Martin Essling (coined the term “Theatre of the Absurd), Allan Lewis, Deborah B. Gaensbauer, Eugene Ionesco, Daniel Albright, Roger Hudson, Sydney Homan, Joseph H. McMahon, Vivian Mercier,

RI Sources:

Theatre of the Absurd

Sources:

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=7588bcc8-da20-4922-a486-e72222752636%40sessionmgr115&hid=118

Lowe, John. “The Lecture Theatre Of The Absurd.” American Scholar 65.1 (1996): 99. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.

“Theater Of The Absurd.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6^Th Edition(2013): 1. History Reference Center. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.

Berkley, George E. “Chapter 7: Theatre Of The Absurd.” Hitler’s Gift. 120-144. US: Branden Publishing, 1993. History Reference Center. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.

Haney II, William S. “Beckett Out Of His Mind: The Theatre Of The Absurd.” Studies In The Literary Imagination 34.2 (2001): 39. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.

Helpful Sites:

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Theatre_of_the_Absurd.html

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2002/Theatre-of-the-Absurd

http://www.samuel-beckett.net/CH_6.HTM

http://www.samuel-beckett.net/AbsurdEsslin.html

http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/theatre_of_the_absurd.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/15/specials/albee-absurd.html

Leaders:

Ø Martin Esslin