Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd by Carl Lavery, Clare Fi... - 9781472506672

Rethinking the Theatre of the AbsurdEcology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage\nAuthor(s): Carl Lavery, Clare Finburgh Delijani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Methuen Drama\nISBN-13: 9781472506672, 978-1472506672\nSynopsis\nRethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological th.