# The Theatre of the Absurd

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- Book: [The Theatre of the Absurd](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-esslin/the-theatre-of-the-absurd) ([The Theatre of the Absurd.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-esslin/the-theatre-of-the-absurd.md))
- Authors: [Martin Esslin](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-esslin)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0007-523-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2004-01-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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...