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All this was shattered by the war.

— Martin Esslin The Theatre of the Absurd (1961)

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The "Theatre of the Absurd" has become a catch-phrase, much used and much abused.

Introduction to Absurd Drama (1965)

The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy.

Introduction to Absurd Drama (1965)

The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being — that is, in terms of concrete stage images.

The Theatre of the Absurd (1961)

The Theatre of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought.

The Theatre of the Absurd (1961)

The Theatre of the Absurd, on the other hand, tends toward a radical devaluation of language, toward a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself.

The Theatre of the Absurd (1961)

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