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Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter / Michael Y. Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Michael Y., 1980-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- European drama.
- Theater of the absurd.
- Absurd (Philosophy) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction : reassessing the theatre of the abusrd
- The parable of Estragon'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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230113381
- 0230113389
- OCLC:
- 669160827
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