TY - BOOK AU - Esslin,Martin TI - The theatre of the absurd T2 - Pelican books SN - 0140209298 AV - PN1861 .E872 1974 PY - 1974/// CY - Harmondsworth, [London] PB - Penguin Books, Eyre & Spottiswoode KW - European drama KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Theater of the absurd N1 - BIBINDX; Samuel Beckett: The absurdity of the absurd -- Arthur Adamov: The search for the self -- Eugene Ionesco: The curable and the incurable -- Jean Genet: A hall of mirrors -- Harold Pinter: Certainties and uncertainties -- Parallels and proselytes -- The tradition of the absurd -- The significance of the absurd -- Beyond the absurd -- The dramatists of the absurd -- Background and history of the theatre of the absurd N2 - Samuel Beckett - Arthur Adamov - Eugene Ionesco - Jean Genet - Harold Pinter - Vian - Frisch; History and background of the theatre of the absurd ER -