Pinter's Old Times
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They heyday of the absurdist movement in theatre is generally considered to be the mid-1950's through to the mid-1960's. In fact, the largest body of Pinter's classic work was completed at this time. Certainly, Old Times seems to be an anomaly, having been produced as late as 1971, long after the end of what was considered the absurdist movement; as the name suggests however, Old Times does seem to look back with a certain bit of nostalgia and reflection upon the theatre of the absurd. The critic Martin Esslin, in his 1961 study of "The Theatre of the Absurd," referred to Harold Pinter as an absurdist playwright in the tradition of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco. According to Esslin, the theater of the absurd is characterized by a thematic concern with the senselessness of human li
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Approximate Word count = 547
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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