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Author | : Carina Kröger |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3668359350 |
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: In this text, the term „theatre of the absurd“ is defined and described according to its historical development. Furthermore, the author includes important representatives and their style in conjunction with the typical characteristica of the TotA. Select pieces of the TotA will also be described.
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Eugène Ionesco |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802143181 |
Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. Now his classic one acts The Bald Soprano and The Lesson are available in an exciting new translation by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tina Howe, noted heir of Ionesco's absurdist vision, acclaimed by Frank Rich as "one of the smartest playwrights we have." In The Bald Soprano Ionesco throws together a cast of characters including the quintessential British middle-class family the Smiths, their guests the Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires -- including their hearths. It's an archetypical absurdist tale and Ionesco displays his profound take on the problems inherent in modern communication. The Lesson illustrates Ionesco's comic genius, where insanity and farce collide as a professor becomes increasingly frustrated with his hapless student, and the student with his mad teacher.
Author | : Harold Pinter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780571160785 |
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
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.
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 | : Phillip B. Zarrilli |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0415462231 |
Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.