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: 9780802150240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Contains the text to two of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett's greatest works, a single-act play and a single-person mime sketch.

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.

Endgame

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: CNIB, [197-]
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description

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 : 218

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.

Endgame

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

No Kidding!

Author: Donald McManus
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138085
Category : Clowns in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
This work examines the way the clown has been used as a serious character by important playwrights and directors in twentieth-century theater. Experiments with Clown by Jean Cocteau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Giorgio Strehler, Dario Fo, and Roberto Begnini are examined.