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Reassessing the theatre of the absurd = Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reassessing the theatre of the absurd/ Michael Y. Bennett.
Reminder of title:	Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /
Author:	Bennett, Michael Y.,
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	European drama - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230118829 (electronic bk.)

Reassessing the theatre of the absurd = Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /
Bennett, Michael Y.,1980-

Reassessing the theatre of the absurdCamus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /[electronic resource] :Michael Y. Bennett. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd * "The Parable of Estagon's Struggle with the Boot" in Waiting for Godot * The Pinteresque Oedipal Household: The Interrogation Scene(s) in The Birthday Party * The Parable of the White Clown: The Use of Ritual in Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show * Berenger, The Sisyphean Hero * Conclusion: Theorizing a 'Female Absurd' in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart as a Means of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd.

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that "absurd" plays purport the meaninglessness of life, Michael Y. Bennett's Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd is a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre "movements" of the 20th century. Bennett argues that these "absurd" plays are, instead, ethical texts that suggest how life can be made meaningful. Analyzing the works of five major playwrights/writers of the 1950s (including three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature), Bennett's work challenges fifty years of scholarship though his upbeat and hopeful readings.

ISBN: 9780230118829 (electronic bk.)

Source: 525886Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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European drama
--History and criticism.--20th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1861 / .B44 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 809.2/04

Reassessing the theatre of the absurd = Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /
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