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Harold Pinter's Play The Dumb Waiter as a Dürrenmattian (Tragi)Comedy

The paper attempts to answer the question of whether Harold Pinter’s early play The Dumb Waiter (1957) can be analyzed through the perspective of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s theory of (tragi)comedy, explained in his 1954 essay “Problems of the Theatre.” It examines whether Pinter’s play contains elements such as inter alia, a conceit or idea (Einfall), a coincidence (Zufall), a catastrophic outcome (schlimmstmögliche Wendung), and the usage of the dramatic technique of parody, grotesque, and paradox in order to indicate that the play is indeed a Dürrenmattian (tragi)comedy.

Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Dürrenmatt, (tragi)comedy

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