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The Theatre of the Absurd
Author: Martin EsslinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307548015
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin’s landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett’s tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.
The Theatre
Author: The Theatre
Author: Clement ScottPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
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The Theatre
Author: Robert TurnbullPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Theatre of the Greeks
Author: John William DonaldsonPublisher:
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Category : Greek drama
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Theatre Book of the Year, 1947-1948
Author: George Jean NathanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838611760
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.
The Theatre: a Discourse on Theatrical Amusements and Dramatic Literature [on Titus Ii. 11-15]. Second Edition
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Author: John EAST (Rector of St. Michael's, Bath.)Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Theatre
Author: Sheldon CheneyPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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A history of the drama and the stage. There are facts about the great playhouses, dramatists, plays, poetry, actors, producers and vagabonds of the theatre, etc.
The Grecian Daughter ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald
Author: Arthur MurphyIm Spiegel der Theatergeschichte. In the Mirror of Theatre History
Author: Paul S. UlrichPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643132743
Category : German drama
Languages : de
Pages : 442
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Die räumliche Verbreitung, die stilistische und institutionelle Vielfalt des deutschen Theaters wird präsentiert. Aus Nordamerika und bis Australien, von Skandinavien bis Südost- und Osteuropa reicht diese Theatertätigkeit (Schwerpunkte sind Skandinavien und der anglo-amerikanische Raum). Die Theatermacher, die Darsteller, das Repertoire dieser weltweiten Bemühungen werden in den Einzelbeiträgen in Erinnerung gerufen. Die interkulturelle Bedeutung des deutschen Theaters wird erkennbar. The geographic distribution, the stylistic and institutional diversity of German theatre is presented. This theatre activity extends from North America to Australia, from Scandinavia to Eastern and Southeastern Europe (with particular focus on the Scandinavian and Anglo-American area). The individual contributions recall the global efforts of those who made the theatre, the actors and the repertoire. The cross-cultural significance of the German theatre becomes apparent.
