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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), the Irish novelist, playwright, and poet who became French by adoption, was one of the most original and important writers of the century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. Samuel Beckett stood apart from the lite...

Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot has influenced several generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world, was a dramatist who considered himself a much better novelist. He thought of his plays as diversions undertaken at times whe...

Samuel Beckett is an Irishman who has lived in France since 1938 and who has written much of his drama and fiction in French. The phenomenal success of his play En attendant Godot (1952; published in English as Waiting for Godot, 1954) has made him known...

How much can you take away from a play and still have a theatrical experience left? This is what Samuel Beckett seems to have asked himself every time he wrote a play, and the question, adapted to acting, also seems to have occurred to...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Krapp's Last Tape: Analysis and Critique History. A technical tour de force and probably the most famous of Beckett's shorter plays, Krapp's Last Tape was written directly into English soon after Beckett completed Endgame in 1957. It was first performed at...

Analyzes a Literary criticism of Samuel Becket by Michael Schell. Compares Krapp to Beckett, and dissects the tone of Krapp's Last Tape.