![]() ![]() The playwrights most often associated with the movement are Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Each of the main playwrights of the movement seems to have developed independently of' each other. ![]() This movement known as the Theater of the Absurd was not a consciously conceived movement, and it has never had any clear-cut philosophical doctrines, no organized attempt to win converts, and no meetings. ![]() While other dramatists have also contributed significantly to this genre, Beckett remains its single, most towering figure. His contribution to this particular genre allows us to refer to him as the grand master, or father, of the genre. With the appearance of En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, the literary world was shocked by the appearance of a drama so different and yet so intriguing that it virtually created the term "Theater of the Absurd," and the entire group of dramas which developed out of this type of theater is always associated with the name of Samuel Beckett. ![]()
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