Reassessing the theatre of the absurd
Subtitle: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter
By: Michael Y. Bennett
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780230113381
Subjects: European drama; History and criticism; Absurd (Philosophy) in literature; Theater of the absurd
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[135]-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reassessing the theatre of the absurd; title: The parable of Estragon's struggle with the boot in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; title: The Pinteresque Oedipal household : the interrogation scene(s) in The birthday party; title: The parable of the white clown : the use of ritual in Jean Genet's The blacks : a clown show; title: Berenger, the Sisyphean hero; title: Conclusion : theorizing a "female absurd" in Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart as a means of reassessing the theatre of the absurd.