Endgame and Act Without Words

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198813
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

Endgame

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802150240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
Four characters play a game of life, concluding with the exit of one character and the immobility of the remaining three, in a study of man's relationship to his fellows

Endgame

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571243730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, 'Endgame' was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

The Plays of Samuel Beckett

Author: Eugene Webb
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying tendencies of Beckett's mind and art.

The Collected Shorter Plays

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802144381
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

No Author Better Served

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674625228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571297005
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker) The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. KRAPP 'Here I end this reel. Box - [ Pause.] - three, spool - [ Pause.] - five. [ Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [ Staring motionless before him.]

The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571296998
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why he is speaking in the first place, the loss of heart when explanations seem called for... Above all, the stories crisply plot the narrator's plotless descent into vagrancy, the steeper as it approaches The End . Out of these short works and their patient procedures grew the large canvases of Molloy and Malone Dies. My bench was still there. It was shaped to fit the curves of the seated body. It stood beside a watering trough, gift of a Mrs Maxwell to the city horses, according to the inscription. During the short time I rested there, several horses took advantage of the monument. The iron shoes approached and the jingle of the harness. Then silence. That was the horse looking at me. Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Then the silence again. That was the horse looking at me again. Then the pebbles again. Then the silence again. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill. Edited by Christopher Ricks

Endgame

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571229178
Category : Play in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.