Tragicomedy

Beckett, Ionesco, and the Tradition of Tragicomedy Author(s): Enoch Brater Reviewed work(s): Source: College Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 113-127 publish by: College Literature Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111022 . Accessed: 05/04/2012 02:27 Your use of the JSTOR enumeration indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/ rogue/info/ somewhat/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and reconstruct upon a wide range of content in a indisputable digital archive. We use information technology and tools to amplify productiveness and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more than information about JSTOR, amuse contact support@jstor.org. College Literature is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and resist find to College Literature. http://www.jstor.org 113 BECKETT, IONESCO, AND THE TRADITION OF TRAGICOMEDY Enoch Brater Behan once said that if a symphonyal composition cherished entertainment he might do worse than to see one of his plays; but if he wanted lectures Brendan he should visit Becketts theater.1 Behans remark seems to reflect his own uneasiness with the metaphysical dialectic at work in Becketts plays.

still opposite critics have been quick to recognize Becketts unique comic like a European reviewed Waiting clowns.2 jean Anouilh repertoire, Arts for the magazine for Godot (January 27, 1953) as the medicine hall . . . vie by the Fratellini written report of Pascals Pensees clowns. Gogo and Didi,! observed Genevieve than they Serreau, suggest clowns more the Alex and Zavetta, Pipo and Rhum, do tramps; Footit and Chocolat, or the traditional comedians of English the Marx Brothers, Fratellini trio, 3 And Hugh Kenner, music hall. among the first to track down that Car in Becketts work, observe that the antecedents tesian Centaur rampant to serious determination were not...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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