SHAKESPEAREAN ANTECEDENTS OF THE ABSURDIST GENRE “TRANSLATED” IN THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
SHAKESPEAREAN ANTECEDENTS OF THE ABSURDIST GENRE “TRANSLATED” IN THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD

Summary/Abstract: Though written in a period when the world was still governed by the belief in God, we can identify in Shakespeare’s plays certain antecedents of the absurd drama, that were to be “translated” (so as to cite Paul Ricoeur) later by the playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd, into some brand-new plays that don’t reflect identically the original version, but that rather “render certain equivalents that lack identity” (Ricoeur, 131) of certain ideas, themes and motives that also exist in the work of the great Bard.

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