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The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics

Author : Jadwiga Uchman
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631853764
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics written by Jadwiga Uchman and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new look at the output of the artists in reference to the employment of the grotesque, justifying their classification together with the East European absurdist playwri...

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.

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.

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : M. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118828
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd written by M. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 295 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.

Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant

Author : Nada Saab
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385835
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant written by Nada Saab and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab analyze the region’s political theater through translations of five plays by significant contemporary Levantine playwrights and critical essays about these works and the impact of these writers’ oeuvres.

The Absurd

Author : Arnold P. Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351631160
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Absurd written by Arnold P. Hinchliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco and Genet. The book concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the term ‘Absurd’ and possible objections to Absurdity. This book will be of interest to those studying Absurdist literature as well as twentieth century drama, literature and philosophy.

The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama

Author : Ondřej Pilný
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137513187
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama written by Ondřej Pilný and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque features have been among the chief characteristics of drama in English since the 1990s. This new book examines the varieties of the grotesque in the work of some of the most original playwrights of the last three decades (including Enda Walsh, Philip Ridley, Tim Crouch and Suzan-Lori Parks), focusing in particular on ethical and political issues that arise from the use of the grotesque.

Around the Absurd

Author : Enoch Brater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Around the Absurd written by Enoch Brater and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays honoring Martin Esslin, author of a seminal book on the theater of the absurd

The absurd in literature

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796575
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The absurd in literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) – as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.

Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137370386
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre

Author : Priscilla Meléndez
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807892862
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre by : Priscilla Meléndez

Download or read book The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre written by Priscilla Meléndez and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre is the first book-length study of the role of farce in Spanish American theatre. Spanish American playwrights have realized that farce's "lack of power" and marginality can become a res

Humor, Satire, and Identity

Author : Jill E. Twark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110195996
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Humor, Satire, and Identity written by Jill E. Twark and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. This title surveys ten novels including, works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective.

Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre

Author : Masud Hamdan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641943
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre written by Masud Hamdan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the merit of the Syrian playwrights, Durayd Lahham and Muhammad al-Maghout, whose plays are representative of the Arab theatrical realisation, in general, and Syrian protest plays, in particular. This book portrays their works that combine art with politics, lower class-consciousness and identity with Pan-Arab nationalism.

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.

Transcending the Absurd

Author : Halina Stephan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004647945
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Transcending the Absurd written by Halina Stephan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monographic study devoted to S l awomir Mro z ek, the most prominent contemporary Polish dramatist. It centers on Mrozek's development as a playwright, shown through the analysis of his complete dramas. Also discussed is Mro z ek's experience as a journalist and theatre critic, satirist and short story writer, author of cartoons and movie scenarios. The monograph spans Mrozek's beginnings as the Eastern European representative of the Theatre of the Absurd and his expatriate existence during which he transcends the absurdist model. Mrozek's return to Poland in 1996 reestablishes him as a major literary figures on the contemporary Polish scene. His continuous presence in Western and Eastern European theatres testifies to the broad appeal of his plays. The presentation of Mrozek's entire artistic profile is supplemented by information on the reception of his writings in Poland and abroad, including the most important performances of his plays. The volume also provides a chronology of Mrozek's life and works, a complete listing of primary texts in Polish, English and German, a list of theatrical premieres, and a bibliography of secondary sources.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama

Author : McGraw-Hill, inc
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780070791695
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama written by McGraw-Hill, inc and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1984 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.

Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472578619
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott written by Hugh Grady and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Empson, G. Wilson Knight, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provides a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.