Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the by Carl Lavery,Clare Finburgh

By Carl Lavery,Clare Finburgh

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an cutting edge selection of essays, written via best students within the fields of theatre, functionality and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre during the optics of ecology and surroundings. in addition to providing strikingly new interpretations of the paintings of canonical playwrights resembling Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the ebook playfully mimics the constitution of Martin Esslin's vintage textual content The Theatre of the Absurd, that's in general regarded as the most very important scholarly guides of the 20 th century. by way of analyzing absurdist drama, for the 1st time, as an emergent type of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very which means of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, whereas while creating a major contribution to the improvement of theatre and function reports as an entire.

The collection's interdisciplinary procedure, accessibility, and ecological concentration is going to entice scholars and teachers in a couple of various fields, together with theatre, functionality, English, French, geography and philosophy. it's going to actually have a significant effect at the new pass disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.

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Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage (Methuen Drama Engage)

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an leading edge choice of essays, written by way of major students within the fields of theatre, functionality and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre during the optics of ecology and atmosphere. in addition to providing strikingly new interpretations of the paintings of canonical playwrights corresponding to Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the booklet playfully mimics the constitution of Martin Esslin's vintage textual content The Theatre of the Absurd, that is quite often recognized as some of the most very important scholarly guides of the twentieth century.

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