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Ionesco and others: the French-language scene Ionesco and others: the French-language scene
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Pinter and others: the English-language scene Pinter and others: the English-language scene
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The East European scene The East European scene
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(Soviet) Russia: the OBERIU (Soviet) Russia: the OBERIU
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(Cold-War) Poland and Czechoslovakia (Cold-War) Poland and Czechoslovakia
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Chapter
5 Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd
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Pages
126–156
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Published:August 2006
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Cornwell, Neil, 'Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd', The Absurd in Literature (Manchester , 2006; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 July 2012), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719074097.003.0005, accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This chapter studies the concept of the Theatre of the Absurd, which is based on the precepts of Antonin Artaud, and goes on to describe Artaud as the bridge between the present Theatre of the Absurd and the pioneers of the concept. It then identifies the five major dramatists of the absurd: Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. The chapter focuses on the works of these dramatists – except for Beckett – and views the Theatre of the Absurd in (Soviet) Russia and in east Europe (during the Cold War).
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