Abstract
THE QUESTION OF GENRE IN A DRAMA BY Duerrenmatt is problematic, and the most cursory glance into the corpus of Duerrenmatt-criticism brings to light a variety of generic possibilities. The title of a recent study of The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, for example-“Tragic Elements of a Duerrenmatt Comedy"-is significant in that it indicates the fusion of the two extremes of dramatic composition. The Physicists, which is again styled a comedy by its author, represents a converse of this formulation. The thesis proposed in this article is that The Physicists may not only be termed a tragedy in the full sense, but further, may even be seen in some respects as representing a final stage in the tragic tradition.
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