The Collected Shorter Plays - Softcover

Beckett, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802144381 ISBN 13: 9780802144386

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett, including All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for Theatre, Embers, Roughs for Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune (adapted from Pinget), 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 Traume, and What Where.

From the Back Cover:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802144381
• ISBN 13: 9780802144386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320