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The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

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The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett gathers all the playwright's texts for theatre from 1955 to 1984. This volume includes both his major plays and his shorter, more compressed stage and radio texts. Notable works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days are featured alongside lesser-known pieces, providing a comprehensive collection of Beckett's groundbreaking contributions to modern drama.
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New edition of the must-have compendium of this iconic writer

The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett is an authoritative edition of the plays, for both theatre and radio - from Waiting for Godot to Endgame - of the Nobel Prize-winner Samuel Beckett.

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The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.

Includes: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, .but the clouds., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und TrΓ€ume, What Where.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571229154

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 418g

Pages: 480

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. He 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.

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