[DOC] [TLE] Theatre of the Absurd - Wikipedia [PAR] The Theatre of the Absurd is a postWorld War II designation for particular plays 
of absurdist ... Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "Theatre of 
the Absurd. ... In the first (1961) edition, Esslin presented the four defining 
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the Absurd' has become a catch-phrase, much used and much abused. ... 
appeared on the stage they puzzled and outraged most critics as well audiences. 
... de scandale, that people flocked to see Beckett's Waiting for Godot or Ionesco's 
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... In 1961, Esslin became assistant head of radio drama under ... "Absurdist 
drama" covered a wide range of plays, from Beckett to Arthur ... The last, perhaps, 
most deserved the portmanteau term "absurd", but Esslin used it to... [DOC] [TLE] Back Ground On Godot [PAR] MARTIN ESSLIN. From The Theatre of the Absurd (1961) ... He has also worked 
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because no woman appeared in it, was Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. ... 
which plays of this type are still being received by critics and theatrical re-viewers
, most of... [DOC] [TLE] Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between ... [PAR] The 'Theater of the Absurd', named by theater critic Martin Esslin in his 1961 work
, ... Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, Absurdist playwrights, Eugene Ionesco and 
Arthur ... of existentialism (articulated most famously though the words of 
Kierkegaard, ... The term is used to describe the nonsensical, irrational aspects of 
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Pinter ... European drama20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. ... A catalogue 
record of the book is available from the British Library. .... Then, in 1961, a 
landmark bookMartin Esslin's The Theatre of the .... In this section, I explain 
Esslin's. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Theatre Of The Absurd (ebook)" - Internet Archive [PAR] MARTIN ESSLIN London, April 1967 1 . , * i { -II Copyrighted material Oops, ... 
with the names of Samuel Beckett, Eug&ne Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet, 
... to explain its significance as an expression - and one of the most representa- 
tive .... plays of this type are still being received by critics and theatrical reviewers,
... [DOC] [TLE] About Absurdist Theatre - Subversive Theatre [PAR] The term was coined by the critic Martin Esslin, who made it the title of a book ... 
In the first (1961) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the ... 
The mode of most "absurdist" plays is tragicomedy. ..... Beckett's Happy Days was 
first performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on 17 September 1961. [DOC] [TLE] The Theatre of the Absurd [PAR] Nov 20, 2013 ... Author(s): Martin Esslin ... The plays of Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and 
Eugene Ionesco ... degenerate into lists of words and phrases from a dictionary 
or ... As Arthur Adamov put it in describing how he came to write his first ..... team 
of British radio (and occasionally television) comedians, the Goons,. [DOC] [TLE] Absurdism - Dictionary definition of Absurdism | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] The term "Theatre of the Absurd" was coined by critic Martin Esslin, who identified 
... After the mid-1950s, Adamov rejected Absurdism and began writing plays that 
... In 1959, Albee wrote The Sandbox and in 1961, The American Dream, both of 
.... Ionesco used

Question: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett & Ionesco
Answer: theatre of the absurd