The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin

The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin

The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eug ne Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin's landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has.

Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, The Theatre of the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing.

Martin Julius Esslin (1918-2002) was an English playwright and critic born in Hungary who is most remembered for coining the term Theatre of the Absurd in his 1962 work of the same name.

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ISBN 13	9780140209297
ISBN 10	0140209298
Title	The Theatre of the Absurd
Author	Martin Esslin
Series	Pelican S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1970-10-29
Number of pages	480
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