Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett

This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp's Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday.
The two radio plays were commissioned by the BC; All That Fall plumbs the same pessimistic depths as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife. Finally, in the two pantomimes, Beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of, in Act Without Words I, frustrated desired, and in Act Without Words I, corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another.

Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Ireland, and attended Trinity University in Dublin. He was one of the most important literary and dramatic giants of the twentieth century. He first went to Paris in 1928, when he met a number of avant-garde writers and artists, including James Joyce. He moved to Paris permanently in 1937. Beckett wrote in both English and French, but his most well-known pieces are in the latter. He was a prolific writer of novels, short tales, and poems, but he is most known for his theater works, which adhere to the Theater of the Absurd tradition and are distinguished by their minimalist approach, stripping drama down to its fundamental essentials.

Beckett was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, praising him for transforming man's sorrow into his exaltation. Beckett died in 1989 in Paris. He said at the age of 76, With decreasing attention, loss of memory, and blurred intelligence... The more chances there are of stating something that is true to oneself, the better.

Even though everything appears inexpressible, the impulse to express persists. Even if it makes no logic, a child must build a sand castle. With only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest chance in old age. (Adapted from Playwrights at Work, edited by A.

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ISBN 13	9780802144416
ISBN 10	0802144411
Title	Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
Author	Samuel Beckett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2009-06-16
Number of pages	160
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