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Existentialism
Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in
France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to
express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi
occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan" past the German censor ....
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.... again. For Camus,
this related heavily to everyday life, and he saw Sisyphus an "absurd" hero,
with a pointless existance. Camus felt that it was necessary to wonder what the
meaning of life was, and that the human being longed for some sense of clarity
in the world, since "if the world were clear, art would not exist". "The Myth of
Sisyphus" became a prototype for existentialism in the theatre, and eventually
The Theatre of the Absurd.
Right after the Second World War, Paris became the theatre capital of the west,
and popularized a new form of ....
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