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... Europe especially in Paris, such as Jean Genet, Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, and the expat Samuel Beckett along with the Norwegian Knut Hansun and the Romanian Eugene Ionesco. The philosophical underpinning of the Theatre of the Absurd is provided by the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and ...
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Comedy of menace

Comedy of menace is the body of plays written by David Campton, Nigel Dennis, N. F. Simpson, and Harold Pinter. The term was coined by drama critic Irving Wardle, who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton's play The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, in reviewing Pinter's and Campton's plays in Encore in 1958. (Campton's subtitle Comedy of Menace is a jocular play-on-words derived from comedy of manners—menace being manners pronounced with somewhat of a Judeo-English accent.)