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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe silence at times is such that the earth seems to be uninhabited. That is what comes of the taste for generalization. You have only to hear nothing for a few days, in your hole, nothing but the sound of things, and...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6098)ROUGH FOR THEATRE II ENDGAME SAMUEL BECKETT Old Vic, until March 28 Endgame is not the most charming work in the Samuel Beckett canon. For Beckett's biographer, Anthony Cronin, it is "by common consent his...
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From: Samuel Beckett's "Endgame,"The stage is a place to wait. The place itself waits, when no one is in it. When the curtain rises on Endgame, sheets drape all visible objects as in a furniture warehouse. Clov's first act is to uncurtain the two high...
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From: Perspective[(essay date October 1957) In the following essay, translated from the French version originally published in the October 1957 issue of Etudes Anglaises, Mayoux highlights Beckett's "laying open" the essence of human...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Brater studies the uniqueness of many of the opening lines from Beckett's plays, explores their portent, and probes the non-linear aspects of the plays.] I Although Beckett...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)A comic/tragic mime for human puppets treating a depleted universe at the apocalyptic end of its tether, Endgame is quintessential Beckett. Typically, this play is impoverished in every sense, but dauntingly rich in...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Over four years elapsed between the premiere of Waiting for Godot and that of Beckett's next play, Endgame, in April 1957. The plays share some similar features particularly in the ratio of three clown-like characters to...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Gontarski appraises Beckett's reworking of his earlier plays and the changes they have undergone, paying particular attention to Play.] In the early 1960s the nature of Samuel...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsWhen Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) opened at the The[ac]a[ci]tre Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, the French dramatist and critic Jean Anouilh compared the event to the historic opening of...
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From: Comparative Drama[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Tassi suggests options for staging Shakespearian plays in light of Beckett's absurdist theater.] Comparisons of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett have been popular...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 15. )In a story with Dante in the title and in which the protagonist bears a name taken from Dante, readers expect allusions to the greatest of medieval poets. In "Dante and the Lobster," the work that in many ways commences...
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From: Yale French Studies[(essay date spring-summer 1962) In the following essay, Cohn studies the layers of reality and unreality in Beckett's plays and discusses the characters' awareness of the symbiotic nature of these (un)realities.]...
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From: Beckett: The PlaywrightEndgame is constructed in more or less clearly defined sections which are 'played without a break'; the sections being frequently marked off by pauses but never by an interval as significant as that between the movements...
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From: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Malkin discusses Beckett's dramatic presentation of memory in Krapp's Last Tape and Not I.] Krapp's Last Tape (1958) embodies memory and the dislocations of time; in...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date fall 1999) In the following essay, Gontarski finds Play to be a crucial element in the formation of Beckett's theatrical sensibility.] To date none of the commonly available English texts for Samuel...
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From: Studies in the Literary Imagination[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Haney uses Eastern philosophies to explain the levels of consciousness in Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame.] Introduction Playwrights such as Samuel Beckett,...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1997) In the following essay, Kumar notes that chess is the underlying metaphor in Beckett's Endgame and explains the characters' inability to move, need for protection, and use of pawns as metaphors...
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From:Drama for Students (Vol. 18. )Samuel Beckett's writing can be something of a puzzle. There are no final positions or absolute interpretations. Endgame is, however, a unique masterpiece with an intricate dramatic structure that runs contrary to...
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From: Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"A common practice in the theater is to cover the set once the play is over so that it will be the same set, "virginal" if you will, at the next performance, not changed by the dust and dirt that make their way into the...
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From: Journal of Analytical Psychology[(essay date January 1960) In the following essay, Metman explores the different embodiments of God, treatment of women, and the depiction of the human condition in Beckett's earlier dramatic works.] Introduction...