# The Theatre of the Absurd

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- Authors: [Martin Esslin](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-esslin)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2004-01-06

## Description

In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million...

## Editions

### The Theatre of the Absurd

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0007-523-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2004-01-06
- Language: en_US