"Theatre Games, Language Games and "Endgame

Like most children, I learned many rhymes without particular attention to their sense or story. Verses were recited, then passed unnoticed into the toy chest of early language games. Mairzy doates remained with me because it perplexed me. It suggested some hidden treasure, but no ready code for deciphering ever appeared until a moment during a rehearsal for a production I was directing in the winter of 1975 at Amherst College of Samuel Beckett's Endgame.2 In that moment, it suddenly dawned that the old nonsense rhyme could be quite sensibly spoken as

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