"Well? Shall we go?" "Yes, let's go." [They do not move.] : -Vernacular Comedy and Waiting for Godot.
This essay discusses the relationship between the characters Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and the vernacular clowning tradition. The discussion is supported by analyzing similarities between Waiting for Godot and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque realism as i...
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Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR)
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32471 |