Indian Streams Research Journal

Volume : VI, Issue : I, February - 2016

EXHAUSTION IN MODERN DRAMA: THE MISSING THESIS IN THE DIALECTICS OF THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD

S K Mishra, None

DOI : 10.9780/22307850, By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

For an absurd playwright, his sense of being is his subject matter and it is this projection of the author’s inner world that determines the theatre of the absurd’s non-realistic form and that essentially separates drama form existential drama. The strength of absurd drama also reveals its weakness which we perceive in its over-intellectualisation and separation of subject and the object in life and drama. This results in a feeling of exhaustion and a missing vitality in terms of verbal and imagistic dramatisation.

Keywords :

• Absurd
• Subject-Object
• Breakdown of Language
• Loss of Identity
• Absurd
• Subject-Object
• Breakdown of Language
• Loss of Identity

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