【正确答案】正确答案：Theatre of the Absurd: The critic Martin Esslin coined the phrase "Theatre of the Absurd" in 1961 to refer to a number of dramatists of the 1950s whose works evoke the absurd by abandoning logical form, character, and dialogue together with realistic illusion. The classic work of absurdist theatre is Beckett" s En attendant Godot(Waiting for Godot, 1952), which revives some of the conventions of clowning and farce to represent the impossibility of purposeful action and the paralysis of human aspiration. Other dramatists associated with the theatre of the absurd include Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter.