The Theatre Of The Absurd Av Martin Esslin

<p>The ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights – writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter – whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power and insight of Martin Esslin’s landmark work, originally published in 1961, that its title should enter the English language in the way that it has.<br><br>Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, <i>The Theatre of the Absurd</i> remains to this day a clear-eyed work of criticism on a compelling period of European writing.</p>