What to Read After The Theatre of the Absurd
Readers who loved The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Theatre of the Absurd is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Theatre of the Absurd
The Birthday Party
The Theater and its Double
Brecht on Theatre
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Happy Days
Towards a Poor Theatre
An Actor Prepares
Theatre of the Oppressed
Krapp's Last Tape
The Birthday Party, and The Room
Performance Theory (Routledgeclassics)
A Director Prepares
The Blacks
En attendant Godot
Postdramatic Theatre
Endgame and Act Without Words
Freshwater
The Mirror and the Lamp
Shakespeare's Bawdy
Plays, one
The American dream
J.B.
Die Dreigroschenoper:= The Threepenny Opera
True West