Other dramatists associated with the theatre of the absurd include Edward Albee, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, and Václav Havel. The classic work of absurdist theatre is Beckett's En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot, 1952), which revives some of the conventions of clowning and farce to represent the impossibility of purposeful action and the paralysis of human aspiration. Whose works evoke the absurd by abandoning logical form, character, and dialogue together with realistic illusion. The critic Martin Esslin coined the phrase theatre of the absurd in 1961 to refer to a number of dramatists of the 1950s (led by Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco)
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Many 20th-century writers of prose fiction have stressed the absurd nature of human existence: notable instances are the novels and stories of Franz Kafka, in which the characters face alarmingly incomprehensible predicaments.
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So, a drama having a cock and bull story would be called an absurd play.” Another meaning brings out by the Literary Dictionary, absurd is a term derived from the existentialism of Albert Camus, and often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness in a universe without meaning or value. I find out a blog and the writer’s nickname is Last Island says that, “It is very clear from the very word Absurd that it means nonsensical, opposed to reason, something silly, foolish, senseless, ridiculous and topsy-turvy. Reasons.Īccording to the 7th edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, absurd brings out the meaning of completely ridiculous not logical and sensible.
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Based on this play, the absurd play exists in the sandbox or not. By, Cleopatra Kisau Norhaziera Binti Muhammad Sim Wen Yi Tan Cheng Cheng Zahidatul Fathiah Binti Maskun