Ian Butcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 9533587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Butcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Butcher |
| SIGNATURE | BUTCHER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1120-7790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Vaudeville and Hollywood to Godot’s country road
This article examines the figure of the ‘sympathetic’ tramp and complementary tramp pair, as it develops from popular entertainment into modernist theatre, culminating in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It traces a line from music-hall and comic traditions – such as Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt and the Danish cartoonist Storm P. – to the bowler-hatted duo of Vladimir and Estragon. These earlier partners…
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From Vaudeville and Hollywood to Godot’s country road
This article examines the figure of the ‘sympathetic’ tramp and complementary tramp pair, as it develops from popular entertainment into modernist theatre, culminating in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It traces a line from music-hall and comic traditions – such as Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt and the Danish cartoonist Storm P. – to the bowler-hatted duo of Vladimir and Estragon. These earlier partners…
Cartoonist (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Comics (1 work) · Entertainment (1 work) · Hollywood (1 work) · Identity (music) (1 work) · Popular culture (1 work) · Repetition (rhetorical device) (1 work) · Samuel Beckett and Modernism (1 work) · Sound Studies and Aurality (1 work)