Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & Other Plays

Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & Other Plays
Author: Jeffrey Fisher
Publisher: Cliff Notes
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1980
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9780822013549
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A true innovation for the stage, Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest successes of the Theater of the Absurd. Although the subject and play is bleak in appearance, a semblance of nobility emerges as the two characters maintain hope. This volume also covers Endgame, All That Fall, Act Without Words I, and Krapp's Last Tape.

Endgame

Endgame
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1958
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802150240
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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

Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett

Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publisher
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1645423859
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war ravaged twentieth-century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated with the “Theatre of the Absurd,” where his work displayed conventional plot and structure and utilized laughter as a prominent tool against despair. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Beckett’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett
Author: John Pilling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1994-03-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521424134
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The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.

Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame'

Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame'
Author: Patrizia Demleitner
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3638766365
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Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: From Modernism to Postmodernism, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This peace of work deals with the question, whether Beckett's "Endgame" is a continuation of "Waiting for Godot". In order to answer it, both plays will be compared to work out similarities as well as differences. Godot will function as a basis and startingpoint for interpretation, that will then turn towards Endgame for comparison to come to a conclusion. Main features of the drama such as plot, setting, characters, action, language and time will be involved in this procedure of analysis. To a certain extent, this approach towards the two plays will also be related to the historical context of Postmodernism and the philosophical background of Existentialism, as well as to characteristics of the Theatre of the Absurd or the Expressionist Theatre.

Samuel Beckett’s 'Endgame': The continuation of 'Waiting for Godot'?

Samuel Beckett’s 'Endgame': The continuation of 'Waiting for Godot'?
Author: Patrizia Demleitner
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2006-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3638528146
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Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: From Modernism to Postmodernism, language: English, abstract: This peace of work deals with the question, whether Beckett’s "Endgame" is a continuation of "Waiting for Godot". In order to answer it, both plays will be compared to work out similarities as well as differences. Godot will function as a basis and startingpoint for interpretation, that will then turn towards Endgame for comparison to come to a conclusion. Main features of the drama such as plot, setting, characters, action, language and time will be involved in this procedure of analysis. To a certain extent, this approach towards the two plays will also be related to the historical context of Postmodernism and the philosophical background of Existentialism, as well as to characteristics of the Theatre of the Absurd or the Expressionist Theatre.

Endgame and Act Without Words

Endgame and Act Without Words
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2009-06-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802198813
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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.

Watt

Watt
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 080219835X
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In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.