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Ionesco, Beckett, and the Theater of the Absurd
A new genre of play appeared on French stages in the 1950s. Critics called it The Theater of the Absurd. The two most prominent playwrights were the Romanian Eugene Ionesco and the Irish Samuel Beckett, although both wrote in French. They were viewed as revolutionary. Ionesco was elected a member of the Academie Francaise, a bastion of conservatism, and Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. We will examine some of their works.
10. Waiting for Godot (continued)
11. Endgame
12. Endgame (continued)
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