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| adam_text | The Cambridge Introduction to
Theatre and Literature of the Absurd
MICHAEL Y. BENNETT University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Michael Bennett’s accessible Introduction explains the complex, multi-dimensional nature
of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of
writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely
different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts,
Bennett provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and
literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Chapters reveal
the movement’s origins, development, and present-day influence upon popular culture
around the world, employing the latest research to th is often-challenging area of study
in a balanced and authoritative approach. Essential reading for students of literature and
theatre, this book provides the necessary tools to interpret and develop the study of a
movement associated with some of the twentieth century’s greatest and most influential
cultural figures.
« Offers a comprehensive survey of absurd literature, from its early influences to its
cultural legacy today
* Explains the historical and intellectual contexts behind absurdism to provide a greater
understanding of the movement and its key texts
• Presents a new way to understand and group absurd writers through a structured
approach
Contents
Acknowledgmen ts page x
Chapter 1 Introduction: Overview of the absurd 1
Martin EsslhTs The Theatre of the Absurd 3
Common conceptions of the absurd 9
Origins of the absurd: The Greeks through the
nineteenth century 11
Origins of the absurd: Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism,
and other avant-garde movements of the early
twentieth century 12
Philosophy of the absurd: Or rather, philosophies
of the absurd 14
Challenges to the notion of absurd” 16
Absurd tragicomedy 20
Chapter 2 Setting the stage 24
Alfred Jarry 25
Franz Kafka 28
OBERIU 31
Antonin Artaud 32
Chapter 3 The emergence of a movement :
The historical and intellectual contexts 35
Post֊WWII Europe 36
Post֊WWII United States 39
The Existential Front 40
The Camus—Sartre quarrel 40
The emergence of analytic philosophy 44
vii
viii Contents
Why theatre?: How the genre came to be the center
of the “movement” 45
Chapter 4 Samuel Beckett 47
Waiting for Godot 49
Other plays 52
Fiction 57
Poetry 62
Chapter 5 Beckett s notable contemporaries 67
Edward Albee 67
Jean Genet 76
Eugene Ionesco 81
Harold Pinter 84
i
Chapter 6 The European and American wave
of absurdism 92
Arthur Adamov 92
Fernando Arrabal 94
Amiri Baraka 95
Friedrich Dürrenmatt 97
Jack Gelber 98
Václav Havel 99
Adrienne Kennedy 100
Arthur Kopit 102
Sławomir Mrożek 103
Tadeusz Różewicz 104
Sam Shepard 105
N.F. Simpson 113
Tom Stoppard 113
Chapter 7 Post-absurdism? 115
The influence of the absurdist “movement” 115
Dramatic and theatrical conventions following the
absurdist “movement” 116
(Later) female absurdists 119
Contents ix
The multicultural absurd?
Absurdism’s legacy outside of the theatre: Fiction and poetry
after the wake of the 1970s
Absurdism in pop culture
122
124
125
Chapter 8 Absurd criticism
128
Esslin
Esslin’s contemporaries
The lull in absurd criticism
The resurgence of absurd criticism in the new millennium
129
129
130
130
Notes
Further reading
Index
133
150
160
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