Abstract:The purpose of this study is to discuss physical humour arising from the characters' quest for identity and to depict how the themes of death/ chance/ fate/ reality/ illusion function in the existentialist world of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Humour plays a significant role in the analysis of this tragicomedy. The theatre of the Absurd expresses the senselessness of the human condition, abandons the use of rational devices, reflects man's tragic sense of loss, and registers the ultimate realities of the huma… Show more
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