SOURCE: "Death and Tragi-Comedy," in The Massachusetts Review, Vol. VI, No. 2, Winter-Spring, 1965, pp. 381-402.
In the following essay, Lamont considers representative plays by Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jack Richardson in order to examine the modern dramatist's comic interpretation of human suffering and death.
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