Literature · Drama & Theatre Literature
A topic within Drama & Theatre Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Alfred Jarry
A grotesque, gluttonous usurper seizes a throne through murder and rules by pure appetite, staged with deliberately crude props and language to break with realist theatrical convention and stage power itself as farce — a direct forerunner of the Theatre of the Absurd.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Luigi Pirandello
Six unfinished characters interrupt a theatre company's rehearsal demanding their own drama be staged, using the collision between actors and characters to argue that a fictional character, fixed forever in a single form, can be more real than any living person's constantly shifting self.
about 4.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026