Word: beckettã
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...book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett??€™s Waiting for Godot, which, Segal argues, marked, “the end of the life cycle of genre—the death of comedy...