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It is famously subtitled a "comedy with corpses" because characters frequently die or return from the dead without the expected tragic weight.

The play ruthlessly mocks traditional psychological dramas about adultery, jealousy, and suicide by treating death and haunting with comedic indifference. Witkacy’s Artistic Philosophy w_malym_dworku_stanislaw_ignacy_witkiewicz_1969...

To everyone’s surprise, the ghost of the mother actually appears and begins participating in the family's daily life as if it were perfectly normal. It is famously subtitled a "comedy with corpses"

While it is one of Witkacy’s works closest to a realistic setting, it uses that setting specifically to dismantle the conventions of stage realism. w_malym_dworku_stanislaw_ignacy_witkiewicz_1969...