Ezio D'Errico's Theater of the Absurd
Author : Ezio D'Errico
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838633991
Author : Ezio D'Errico
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838633991
Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307548015
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.
Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0304704644
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487531907
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Author : Carl Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147250576X
Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802008008
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Author : American Association of Teachers of Italian. Conference
Publisher :
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Italian language
ISBN :
Author : Dr. Sudhir Maruti Kakade
Publisher : Shine Book Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release :
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8197659842
This book explores the expressionist elements found in four plays by Mahesh Elkunchwar - The Old Stone Mansion, Pond, Apocalypse and An Actor's Exits. It examines how Elkunchwar used Expressionism to depict the Indian psyche in the context of Western dramatic influences. It also highlights how Indian playwrights, like Elkunchwar, were inspired by European expressionism, contributing to the evolution of postmodern Indian drama.
Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521434379
Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.
Author : Dino S. Cervigni
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Criticism
ISBN :