Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter /
Bennett, Michael Y.,1980-
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
European drama
Theater of the absurd.
Absurd (Philosophy) in literature.