Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd | The Absurd in Literature | Manchester Scholarship Online (2024)

The Absurd in Literature

Neil Cornwell

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2006

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9781781700969

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9780719074097

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The Absurd in Literature

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126–156

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    August 2006

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Cornwell, Neil, 'Around the absurd II: the Theatre of the Absurd', The Absurd in Literature (Manchester, 2006; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 July 2012), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719074097.003.0005, accessed 29 June 2024.

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This chapter studies the concept of the Theatre of the Absurd, which is based on the precepts of Antonin Artaud, and goes on to describe Artaud as the bridge between the present Theatre of the Absurd and the pioneers of the concept. It then identifies the five major dramatists of the absurd: Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. The chapter focuses on the works of these dramatists – except for Beckett – and views the Theatre of the Absurd in (Soviet) Russia and in east Europe (during the Cold War).

Keywords: Theatre of Absurd, major dramatists, Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Eugène Ionesco

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Literary Studies (20th Century onwards) Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Literary Studies (European)

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