The Bald Soprano | The Interrelationship of Ionesco's Anti-Play Elements
In this essay, John W. Fiero discusses the interrelationship of Ionesco's anti-play elements in The Bald Soprano, including character, language, and structure.
The Bald Soprano (1950) is Eugene Ionesco's first "anti-play," conceived and created as a deliberate spoof or parody of the plays then in vogue in Paris. Ionesco was attempting to create "a new free theatre," one devoid of theme, ideology, social realism, philosophy, and the thin "boulevard" psychology then pervading French drama. His targets were the complacent bourgeoisie and intellectual drones who went to see plays that fed them nothing to challenge their smug certainty that such matters as social injustice could be ameliorated through political convictions and rational...
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