Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Beckett in an Hour

E. Teresa Choate

0/5 ( ratings)

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father passed from this world into the next. On his deathbed, his father's final words to Beckett were "fight fight fight" and "what a morning." Though his father's gallows humor expressed itself in many of the plays Beckett wrote, ultimately Beckett came to his own conclusions about death. The ending lines of his last play may well be a response to his father's final words: "It is winter./Without journey./Time passes./That is all./Make sense who may." In his plays, Beckett's efforts to "make sense" of that "journey" established him as one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Samuel Beckett and the plays he wrote. Read Beckettin an Hour and experience his plays like never

Language: English

Pages: 71

Format: Paperback

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN 13: 9781936232086

Beckett in an Hour

E. Teresa Choate

0/5 ( ratings)

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father passed from this world into the next. On his deathbed, his father's final words to Beckett were "fight fight fight" and "what a morning." Though his father's gallows humor expressed itself in many of the plays Beckett wrote, ultimately Beckett came to his own conclusions about death. The ending lines of his last play may well be a response to his father's final words: "It is winter./Without journey./Time passes./That is all./Make sense who may." In his plays, Beckett's efforts to "make sense" of that "journey" established him as one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Samuel Beckett and the plays he wrote. Read Beckettin an Hour and experience his plays like never

Language: English

Pages: 71

Format: Paperback

Release: April 01, 2010

ISBN 13: 9781936232086

More books from E. Teresa Choate

Albee In An Hour (Playwrights In An Hour)

Electra Usa: American Stagings Of Sophocles' Tragedy

Hansberry in an Hour

Ayckbourn In An Hour (Playwrights In An Hour)

Beckett In An Hour (Playwrights In An Hour)

Ayckbourn in an Hour

Electra USA: American Stagings of Sophocles' Tragedy

Albee in an Hour

Rate this book!

Write a review?