The Collected Shorter Plays - by Samuel Beckett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated "Krapp's Last Tape," "Embers," "Cascando," "Play," "Eh Joe," "Not I," and "Footfalls," as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for "Film," his adaptation of Robert Pinget's "The Old Tune," and the more recent "Catastrophe," "What Where," "Quad," and "Night and Dreams."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated <i>Krapp's Last Tape</i>, <i>Embers</i>, <i>Cascando</i>, <i>Play</i>, <i>Eh Joe</i>, <i>Not I</i>, and <i>Footfalls</i>, as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for <i>Film</i>, his adaptation of Robert Pinget's <i>The Old Tune</i>, and the more recent <i>Catastrophe</i>, <i>What Where</i>, <i>Quad</i>, and <i>Night and Dreams</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity.'--Library Journal
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