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en-wikipedia-org-3451		Theatre of the Absurd - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7915	1292	77	Esslin presents the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter.[7][8] Other writers associated with this group by Esslin and other critics include Tom Stoppard,[9] Friedrich Dürrenmatt,[10] Fernando Arrabal,[11] Edward Albee,[12] Boris Vian,[13] and Jean Tardieu.[7][8][11] Though layered with a significant amount of tragedy, the Theatre of the Absurd echoes other great forms of comedic performance, according to Esslin, from Commedia dell'arte to vaudeville.[14][19] Similarly, Esslin cites early film comedians and music hall artists such as Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Buster Keaton as direct influences.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3451.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3451.txt