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| Author | : Carmen Dominte |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2020-09-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1527559882 |
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.
| Author | : Carl Lavery |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2015-11-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 147250576X |
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.
| Author | : Martin Esslin |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2009-04-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0307548015 |
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.
| Author | : Jonathan Kalb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1991-09-05 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521423793 |
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.
| Author | : Lara Cox |
| Publisher | : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9782807601918 |
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.
| Author | : William Storm |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2011-05-05 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139499424 |
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.
| Author | : Harold Pinter |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780802150875 |
Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fear of his characters, alternating hilarity and character to create and almost unbearable edge of tension.
| Author | : Eugène Ionesco |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780571194513 |
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.
| Author | : Eugène Ionesco |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2015-03-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0802190766 |
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.”
| Author | : Samuel Beckett |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2009-06-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 080219835X |
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.
