Reassessing the theatre of the absurd : Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter / Michael Y. Bennett.

Author: Bennett, Michael Y., 1980-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Description179 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Introduction : reassessing the theatre of the absurd -- The parable of Estragon's struggle with the boot in Samuel Beckett's 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.[135]-176) and index.

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