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“The Anatomy of the Gag”: Havel, Stoppard, and Comedies of Censorship | Modern Drama
Václav Havel’s The Memorandum and Tom Stoppard’s Cahoot’s Macbeth are both comedies set in Czechoslovakia about authoritarian attempts to control the use of language. Surprisingly, it is Havel, writing within a Soviet-aligned, Communist-run state, who ...