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Dublin home of the Irish National Theatre Company,where some of the most celebrated plays of the 20th century first appeared.Onits opening night,December 26,1904,the Abbey presented four short plays:William Butler Yeats's Cathleen Ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand,Lady AugustaGregory's Spreading the News,and John Millington Synge's In the Shadow of theGlen.This premiere set a standard that the company was to maintain for thenext two decades.The company presented Synge's The Playboy of theWesternWorld(greeted by rioters protesting the play as “a libel of the Irish character”)in 1907and his powerful tragedy Deirdre of the Sorrows in 1910.The twenties saw thepresentation of Sean O'Casey's great tragicomic achievements:The Shadow ofaGunman(1923),Juno and the Paycock(1924),and The Plough and the Stars(1926),the latter causing another riot at the theater.  \nGOPURA EDUCATION SERVICE09/05/20172  \nabsurd Ridiculous or unreasonable,a definition that has been extended tocharacterize human life.In the 20th-century philosophy of EXISTENTIALISM,theFrench writer Albert Camus employed the term to describe the futility of humanexistence,which he compared to the story of Sisyphus,the figure in Greekmythology condemned for eternity to push a stone to the top of a mountain onlyto have it roll back down again.  \nGOPURA EDUCATION SERVICE09/05/20173  \nIn  \nthe 1950s a group of playwrights created a new form of drama,which the criticMartin Esslin named\"the theatre of the absurd,\"to describe plays that abandonedtraditional construction and conventional dialogue.These plays were notablefor their illogical structure and the irrational behavior of their characters.Chiefamong the absurdist playwrights was Samuel Beckett,whose Waiting for Godot(1953)and Endgame(1957)had a revolutionary impact on modern drama.InWaiting for Godot,two tramps wait for Godot,who sends a message every daythat he will meet them tomorrow.They pass the time engaging in comic stagebusiness,trying to remember where they are and how they got there—as onecharacter puts it,“Anything to give us the illusion we exist.”The second actrepeats the first with slight variations;Godot never arrives,and the two trampscontinue to wait.  \nOther “absurdists”include Eugene Ionesco(Rhinoceros,1960)and ArthurAdamov(Ping Pong,1955)in France,Harold Pinter(The Caretaker,1959)inEngland,and Edward Albee(The American Dream,1961)in the United States.  \nIn FICTION,two of the best known novels of the 1950s and ’60s,JosephHeller's Catch-22(1961)and Gunther Grass's The Tin Drum(1959),captured theabsurdist theme and style.  \nacrostic A poem in which the first letter in each line spells out a word.Awell-known example is the notoriously sentimental MOTHER acrostic.Theform's low repute as a literary device is reflected in John Dryden's satiric poem“MacFlecknoe”(1682),in which he advises his hapless adversary to:  \nLeave writing plays,and choose for thy commandSome peaceful province in Acrostic land.  \nThere thou mayest wings display and altars raise,And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.  \naction painting A term coined by the critic Harold Rosenberg to describe acentral principle of the Abstract Expressionist art movement that developed inthe 1940s and'50s.The goal of action painting was to capture the act of creatingthe painting:the painting itself was to be seen simply as the representation of theact of producing it.Jackson Pollock's technique of dripping paint as he walkedover his canvas is a prime example of action painting.  \nGOPURA EDUCATION SERVICE  \no9/05/2017  \n5  \naffective fallacy A term in NEW CRITICISM used to describe the error,from aNew Critical perspective,of analyzing a work of literature in terms of its impactupon a reader.The critics William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley coined theterm to call attention to the distinction between the text of a work and\"its resultsin the min","cbCaikDqgXP4BLb1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikDqgXP4BLb1","pdf",2649361,32,"English","# Gopura's 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