Concept

Theatre of the absurd

Overview

theatrical genre

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Theatre of the absurd

• Aristophanes
• Mircea Eliade
• Marshall McLuhan

Related ideas

• Hamlet
• Nausea (novel)
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Jean Genet
• Absurdity
• Luigi Pirandello
• Being and Nothingness
• Bertolt Brecht
• Lewis Carroll
• Samuel Beckett
• Surrealism
• Tom Stoppard
• William Shakespeare
• World War II
• Waiting for Godot
• Personal identity
• Martin Heidegger
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Czechoslovakia
• André Breton
• Václav Havel
• Eugène Ionesco
• Dada
• Existentialism

Place in the tradition

Part of Existentialism.

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