Other works by Ionesco in the style which came to be known as the “Theater of the Absurd” include the short plays The Lesson (1951) and The Bald Soprano (1948) and the full-length play Rhinoceros (1959). Ionesco also wrote essays and theoretical writings, including Notes and Counter Notes (1962), which responds to theater critics, and Hugoliade (1935), which ridicules Victor Hugo.
Other playwrights whose work has been categorized as "Theater of the Absurd" are Samuel Beckett (especially his famous work, Waiting for Godot), Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov.
George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht are writers who, like Ionesco, contributed to the field of theater with theoretical writings.
