Binding: Paperback
Description: Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd which suggests that "absurd" plays purport the meaninglessness of life Michael Y. Bennett's Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd is a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre "movements" of the twentieth century. Bennett argues that these "absurd" plays are instead ethical texts that suggest how life can be made meaningful. Analyzing the works of five major playwrights/writers of the 1950s (including three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature) Bennett's work challenges fifty years of scholarship though his upbeat and hopeful readings.
Title: Reassessing The Theatre Of The Absurd Camus Beckett Ionesco Genet And Pinter
Author(s): Bennett M.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137378767
Pages: 179 Pages, Ix, 179 P.
Publication Date: 12/12/2013
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics