Harold Pinter is regularly categorized as a representative of the Theatre of the Absurd, which seemed and developed primarily in the 1950s in France, England, Scandinavia, Germany, and different English-speaking countries below the impact on surrealism and expressionism, and as a response to the Second World War.According to Esslin, the beginning of this type of drama can be considered in the late nineteenth century, when in 1896 Alfred Jarry staged for the first time in Paris Ubu Roi (Ubu the King), a nonsensical play about the adventures of a brutal usurper of the Polish throne.