• Post-World War II Drama

• Post-World War II Drama

Although many dramatists of the 1930s continued to produce important

works during the 1940s and 1950s, the theatrical landscape in Europe and

the United States changed significantly after World War II (1939-1945).

Among the most influential postwar movements was theater of the absurd.

􀂃 European Trends

In the years immediately following World War II, the philosophy of

existentialism gained many followers in France and elsewhere.

Existentialism argued that the universe contained no fixed and unchanging

set of moral codes, and that each individual must create his or her own

order and morality.