English Dramas

The Chief Traits of French Drama:  Absurd drama is the drama which treats human life and human situation as absurd, unfit or foolish. The absurd dramatist takes things rationally and not romantically. It is a drama without traditional plot, story, or division into acts and scenes. It has fewest possible characters. In this type of … Read more

Waiting for Godot, Having Religious Element:  Waiting for Godot, an absurd drama as it is, has an unmistakably religious element. When Beckett was once asked to comment on the play Waiting for Godot, he quoted from St. Augustine: “Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume: one of the thieves was … Read more