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Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carl Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147250576X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carl Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carl Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472513207
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carl Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.

The Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548015
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of the Absurd written by Martin Esslin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beckett in Performance

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423793
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Beckett in Performance written by Jonathan Kalb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : M. Bennett
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349295203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd written by M. Bennett and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975111
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture or stance? If so, what are the objectives, dynamics, and repercussions of the absurd stance? And in what ways has the absurd stance continued to shape postmodern thought and contemporary culture? In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects’ destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies.

The Chairs

Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571194513
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book The Chairs written by Eugène Ionesco and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities.

Irony and the Modern Theatre

Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499424
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Irony and the Modern Theatre written by William Storm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.

The French Theater of the Absurd

Author : Deborah B. Gaensbauer
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The French Theater of the Absurd written by Deborah B. Gaensbauer and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bald Soprano

Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190766
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bald Soprano by : Eugène Ionesco

Download or read book The Bald Soprano written by Eugène Ionesco and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Absurdist masterpiece by the author of Rhinoceros “is explosively, liberatingly funny...a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs” (The Observer). Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco’s first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books. Ionesco went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. As Ionesco has said, “Theater is not literature. . . . It is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means.”

The caretaker and The dumb waiter

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The caretaker and The dumb waiter written by Harold Pinter and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Lara Cox
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
ISBN 13 : 9782807601918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd written by Lara Cox and published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges Martin Esslin's signature tome The Theatre of The Absurd which categorized Absurdist plays reductively as displaying an existentialist crisis of "Man" and provocatively proposes that avant-garde theater of the past is capable of making subversive interventions in the now.

Watt

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219835X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Watt written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Ubu Roi

Author : Alfred Jarry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112551
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Ubu Roi written by Alfred Jarry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences at the 1896 premiere with its scatalogical references, features a cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character — the author's metaphor for modern man.

The Existential Actor

Author : Jeff Zinn
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Existential Actor written by Jeff Zinn and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it's a mirror, and, so, a theory of acting, if true, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor, director, teacher, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory. (from the foreword by Todd London)

Theater as Metaphor

Author : Elena Penskaya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110622033
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Theater as Metaphor written by Elena Penskaya and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.