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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd by John L. Styan (Paperback, 1983)

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This book was first published in 1981. The theatre of the absurd is illustrated in Sartre, Beckett, Pinter and Ionesco. Collectable books go up and down in vaule, if the book states £9.99 on the back for example and you paid £19.99 then the price you paid is the current vaule of the book not the price on the back of the book.

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The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe's Theatre de Le'Oeuvre. Jarry is seen as the precursor of surrealism; later symbolist elements are found in the plays of Claudel, Giraudoux, Yeats, Eliot, Lorca and Pirandello. Artaud's theatre of cruelty is related to the work of Peter Brook. The theatre of the absurd is illustrated in Sartre, Beckett, Pinter and Ionesco. Recent avant-garde theatre in America and Britain also reveals elements of symbolism.