Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces - Brossura

Beckett, Samuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802144411 ISBN 13: 9780802144416

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2009

Riassunto

The past hopes and guilts of various characters return to mock and disquiet them as they near or pass the threshold of death

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Product Description:

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 BBC;"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.

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0802144411
• ISBN 13: 9780802144416
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 87