The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bonnefoy, Claude. Conversations with Eugene Ionesco. Trans. Jan Dawson. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.

Coe, Richard N. Ionesco: a Study of his Plays. London, Methuen, 1971.

Gaensbauer, Deborah. Eugène Ionesco Revisited. New York: Twain Publishers, 1996.

—.—.—. French Theater of the Absurd. Boston: Twain Publisher, 1991.

Kluback, William. The Clown in the Agora: Conversations About Eugène Ionesco. New York: P. Lang, 1998.

Homan, Sidney. Audience as Actor and Character: The Modern Theater of Beckett, Brecht, Genet, Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, and Williams. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell, 1989.

Ionesco, Eugène. Present Past, Past Present: A Personal Memoir. Trans. Helen R. Lane. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.

—.—.—. Notes and Counter Notes; Writings on the Theatre. Trans. Donald Watson. New York: Grove Press, 1964.

Lane, Nancy. Understanding Eugène Ionesco. U. of South Carolina P, 1994.

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