The Theatre of the Absurd, or Theater of the Absurd (
French: "Le Théâtre de l'Absurde") is a designation for particular
plays written by a number of primarily European
playwrights in the late
1940s,
1950s, and
1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. The term was coined by the critic
Martin Esslin, who made it the title of a 1962 book on the subject. Esslin saw the work of these playwrights as giving artistic articulation to
Albert Camus' philosophy that life is inherently without meaning, and so one must find one's own meaning as illustrated in his work
The Myth of Sisyphus.
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