The Complete Dramatic Works

Beckett, Samuel

ISBN 10: 0571144861 / ISBN 13: 9780571144860

Published by Faber & Faber, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Dramatic Works
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571144861
• ISBN 13: 9780571144860
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

A volume containing the English texts of all the plays of Samuel Beckett, including "Waiting For Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame" and "Not I".

About the Author

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.