Beckett is often considered a forerunner to the absurdist movement in theater. Read Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and David Mamet's Glengarry, Glen Ross, and write an essay on how you think their writing has been influenced by Samuel Beckett.
Nagg and Nell, Hamm's parents, are in ashbins throughout the play. What comment does this make on society and our ideas and treatment of the elderly?
Beckett's plays are.....
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