The influence of absurdist theatre on in-yer-face theatre in the 1990's as exemplified by Beckett's "Endgame" and Ravenhill's "Shopping and F***ing"

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, language: English, abstract: “In-Yer-Face Theatre is to the 1990s what absurdism was to the 1950s” In the following paper, I’d like to investigate whether this statement is true or if both movements should be seen as two different theatre forms...