Happy Days was Beckett’s next major theatrical success after Waiting for Godot. Like many of Beckett’s works produced after the second world war, Happy Days is a dark comedy concerned with the ways in which people survive - or don’t - in a callous, uncaring and uncomprehending world. Beckett’s four post-war plays (Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days and Krapp’s Last Tape) are the most enduring of his dramatic works, and are considered foundational texts of the Theatre of the Absurd. However, it bears noting that Beckett resisted that label, and rejected the idea of existential “absurdism”
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