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Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson

The Chairs, the Lesson

Author: Eugene Ionesco   Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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A collection of three plays including "Rhinoceros", "The Chairs" , and "The Lesson".

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A collection of three plays including "Rhinoceros", "The Chairs" , and "The Lesson".

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These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

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About the Author

Eugène Ionesco's first one-act "antiplay," The Bald Soprano, inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd. He followed it with other one-act plays in which illogical events create an atmosphere both comic and grotesque, including The Lesson. His most popular full-length play was Rhinoceros. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1970.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
31st August 2000
Pages
224
ISBN
9780141184296

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