Samuel+Beckett

﻿ ﻿ ---Samuel Beckett---




 * Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd". As such, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his "writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. ||



__ --Plays-- __

 * // Eleutheria (1940s; published 1995) //
 * // Waiting for Godot (1953) //
 * // Act Without Words I (1956) //
 * // Act Without Words II (1956) //
 * // Endgame (1957) //
 * // Krapp's Last Tape (1958) //
 * // Rough for Theatre I (late 1950s) //
 * // Rough for Theatre II (late 1950s) //
 * // Happy Days (1960) //
 * // Play (1963) //
 * // Come and Go (1965) //
 * // Breath (1969) //
 * // Not I (1972) //
 * // That Time (1975) //
 * // Footfalls (1975) //
 * // A Piece of Monologue (1980) //
 * // Rockaby (1981) //
 * // Ohio Impromptu (1981) //
 * // Catastrophe (1982) //
 * // What Where (1983) //

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm http://www.samuel-beckett.net/

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