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Existentialism And Theatre - Example Papers

Existentialism And Theatre

Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the
second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have
often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to
surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play
"Saint Joan" past the German censors because it appeared to be very
Anti-British. French audiences however immediately understood the real
meaning of the play, and replaced the British with the Germans. Those
sorts of "hidden meanings" were common throughout the period so that
plays would be able to pass censorship.
Existentialism proposes that man is full of anxiety and
despair with no meaning in his life, ...

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1940 but managed to
escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement.
Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just
like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French
Underground when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or
"The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to
roll a rock to the top of a mountain, only to have it roll back down
again. For Camus, this related heavily to everyday life, and he saw
Sisyphus an "absurd" hero, with a pointless existence. Camus felt that
it was necessary to wonder what the meaning of life was, and that the
human being longed for some sense of clarity in the world, since "if
the world were clear, art would not exist". "The Myth of Sisyphus"
became a prototype for existentialism in the theatre, and eventually
The Theatre of the Absurd.
Right after the Second World War, Paris became the theatre
capital of the ...

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