Absurd DramaMartin Esslin A collection of plays, often classified as absurd drama, which aim to portray a world in which humanity, with its despair, fear and loneliness, is alone in a hostile and meaningless world. |
Contents
AMÉDÉE OR HOW TO GET RID OF IT | 25 |
PROFESSOR TARANNE | 117 |
THE TWO EXECUTIONERS | 139 |
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Absurd Adamov Alidulée AMÉDÉE and MADELEINE AMÉDÉE II Amédée's Aouh armchair Arthur Adamov audience BAR-OWNER Beckett bench BENOÎT better brass clock Dadaists dead man's feet drama dream Edward Albee Eugène Ionesco everything EXECUTIONERS face Fernando Arrabal FRANÇOISE goes growing Hallo hand happened head heard Hurry husband INSPECTOR Ionesco Jean Jean Genet JEANNE reading JERRY kill laughing left-hand door Listen Little rascal look Madame MADELEINE II Madeleine's MADO MANAGERESS MAURICE mother move mushrooms N. F. Simpson never noise notebook oh dear Pause Penguin perhaps PETER play poetic image POSTMAN Professor Taranne pull round SECOND POLICEMAN shouting shutters silence sits SOLDIER sorry stage stand stop suddenly switchboard talk tell Theatre There's thing told voice W. C. Fields waiting Waiting for Godot walking well-made play What's window write Zoo Story