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Beckett’s Absurdist Plays are a Tragic Comfort for the Twenty-First Century Person

Mar 7, 2020
6 min

Beckett’s Absurdist Plays are a Tragic Comfort for the Twenty-First Century Person

I recently saw Samuel Beckett’s very short play Quad (also called Quad i + ii) at the Hammer Museum.

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