Premium Content Beckett's Novel Achievement: Absurdist Comedy in Waiting for Godot
By James Little - July 29, 2003
In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, the playwright bestows upon his work the veneer of comedy, but invests the heart of it with the "absurd", the tragic. He employs the gags and the routines, the circus comedy and the songs of the "lowbrow" arts, to underline and to sometimes undercut the many themes and ideas which are so apparent throughout…
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