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Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin 's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. [citation needed] .
Rhinoceros is a play by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco that was first performed in 1959. The play is a commentary on the rise of fascism and the dangers of conformity. It tells the story of a small French town where the residents begin turning into rhinoceroses one by one.
Rhinoceros was inspired primarily by Ionesco’s experience of World War II and specifically, the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and the Iron Guard in Romania. Ionesco was studying at a university in Romania when the Iron Guard was coming to power, and unlike some fascist movements, the Iron Guard’s main hold was in universities.
Rhinoceros, quasi-allegorical play in three acts by Eugène Ionesco, produced in Germany in 1959 and published in French the same year as Le Rhinocéros. At the play’s outset, Jean and Bérenger sit at a provincial café when a solitary rhinoceros runs by them.
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Rhinoceros (1959), by the Romanian-born French playwright Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), is a scathing indictment of herd mentality. Set in a small town where residents inexplicably turn into...
‘Rhinoceros’ is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1959. It is a commentary on the rise of fascism and the dangers of conformity. The play is set in a small French town, where the residents begin turning into rhinoceroses one by one.
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