TY - BOOK AU - Salisbury,Laura TI - Samuel Beckett : laughing matters, comic timing SN - 9781474401401 U1 - 848.91409 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Comic, The, in literature N1 - Critical Joking: The Early -- Prose Superiority, Sarcasm , Scholarship -- The Loutishness of Learning -- Diminishing Laughing Returns -- Art vs. Book-Keeping -- S/M : Scholarship and Mimicry -- Critical Timing Gagging in the Trilogy-- Gagging for It -- Partial Incorporation -- An Obligation to Express Tiring Desire -- Toilet Training, Resistant Material -- Nihil in Intellectu Power Playing in Endgame -- Perhaps -- Unhappiness: Nothing Funnier Playing for Time -- The Play of the Audience Just Play -- Dialectics at a Standstill Comic Tremors: The Late Prose -- Embers and Ashes -- Imagination at Wit's End -- Ill Saying, Ill Said -- Ill Seeing Slapstick Echoes: The Late Plays -- Limping Gags -- Deadpan Demands Gravity and Levity -- 'Kindly Tune Accordingly' -- 'Like Something Out of Beckett' ER -