Tragicomedy

Beckett, Ionesco, and the Tradition of Tragicomedy
Author(s): Enoch Brater
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Source: College Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 113-127
Published by: College Literature
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BECKETT, IONESCO, AND THE TRADITION OF TRAGICOMEDY
Enoch

Brater

Behan once said that if a symphonyal composition wanted
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 inquietude with the metaphysical
dialectic at work in Becketts plays.




But 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 music hall
. . . played 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, noted that the antecedents
tesian Centaur
rampant
to
serious determination
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