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In Waiting for Godot, Beckett's two clownlike characters, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy a waste world devoid of meaning, and spend their days waiting for an enigmatic figure called Godot. In fact, Mezzetin is a Pierrot, a clownlike figure derived from commedia dell’arte, a close cousin of the harlequin, whose position among the archetypes has been demoted in our own period to the level of kitsch, reserved nowadays for ornate tchotchkes, romance novels, and other cheap junk. The term "antic," which Hamlet had employed to describe his deceptive actions to come, has itself roots in a world of playing--according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it comes from a meaning of the term as a clownlike fantastic in plays. |
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clownlike - like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor"