On Origin Of Art Of The Theatre Of The Absurd

As an important form of drama, absurd drama was popular in France after World War II. The absurd drama playwright abandoned art assets and conventional basic approaches which were emphasized in the traditional dramatic creation. In terms of both its content and form, absurd drama was quite absurd and bizarre which revealed the real existence of modern people.Though absurd drama has been giving the form of dramatic literature's of known for anti-tradition, anti-drama, anti-literature, the works as well as its all theories have the influenced by authority study of Martin Esslin's apocalypse exploring the absurd drama art that they are indeed the source can be traced back . To research into the theater of the absurd further,we try to pick out the source of the theater of the absurd , from the long history of western theater. First of all, the"introduction"deals with the theme of"the absurd". The theater of the absurd in the 21 century is the picture of the most predictable,most extreme,and most profound of human absurdity. Chapter 1 explores the initial source of the theater of the absurd—original dromenon. The results showed that the theater of the absurd has the elements of original dromenon in spirit of theater and dromenon of theater form: People is to be the center of drama again during the returning of the original spirit of theater .The writer of the theater of the absurd create a kind of dromenon of spirit in 20 century, and make the mordern theater with the character of Sympathetic magic which can anleash the emotion and purify the heart and soul. ChapterⅡdiscusses the impact of the "anti-drama" factor of traditional drama on The Theatre of the Absurd.Through the puppetry which is also from the original ceremony and finally forming at the Middle Ages,the absurd drama has found the ideal stage which is a pure mechanism drama model, Creating the same metaphor stage as the puppetry, absurd drama shows the state of the real world. Shaping the symbolic characters as puppetry, absurd drama turns the characters into a part of the stage image,and then deepens the theme of human alienation. The Nineteenth-century Russian writer Chekhov's creation——reduction of the plot and conflict has been learned by the absurd drama play wrights.Then these "non-drama" factors has been put into ultimate by them.In Chapter III, this thesis argues that through the fantastic performance as well as the subvert of the drama language,the Surrealism drama in the 20th century has becomes a pioneer of the absurd drama the. Absurd drama is considered as the best practice of alto's The Theatre of the Cruelty .Started with the acceptance that,The Theatre of the Absurd has done ,This thesis trace the history of the traditional theater which The Theatre of the Absurd rootrd in,and give a doult about the anti-dramatic of The Theatre of the Absurd which get a long-term academic attention.based on that,this thesis holds that The Theatre of the Absurd is not fault,but a rediscoreyt for the eradition of western theater.