【正确答案】正确答案："Theatre of the Absurd" is a term for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. The representative dramatists are such as Eugene Ionesco with his The Bald Soprano, Samuel Beckett with his Waiting for Godot, Harold Pinter and a few others who share a pessimistic vision of humanity are struggling vainly to find a purpose and to control their fate.