Krapp S Last Tape

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471233847

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Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, including Waiting for Godot. Here are the two most famous plays for solo voice. Krapp's Last Tape finds an old man, with his tape recorder, musing over the past and future. Not I is a remarkable tour de force for a single actress, as a woman emits memories and fears. Also included are two other singular short dramas for single voice, That Time read by John Moffatt and A Piece of Monologue read by Peter Marinker.

Author : Daniel Sack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317335351

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Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape by Daniel Sack Pdf

"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - Krapp Samuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) with a general reader in mind. Structured around a series of questions, five approachable sections contextualize the play in the larger career of its Nobel-Prize-winning writer, explore its major thematic concerns, and offer comparative analyses with Beckett’s other signal works. Sack also uses discussions of significant productions, including those directed by the playwright himself, to ground interpretation of the play in terms of its performance and provide a useful resource to directors and actors. Both a critical and personal exploration of this haunting play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Beckett’s work.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4100620

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Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Krapp's last tape is a monologue of a man who, after 30 years, plays back the autobiographical tape he had recorded on his 39th birthday. All that fall is about the pilgrimage of an old Irish woman to meet her blind, grumbling husband at the train. In Embers, an old man and his wife ramble on and on. In Act without words I, a man responds to inviting off-stage whistles only to be thrown back from the wings. Act without words II has two men emerging from sacks to perform corresponding motions of living.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571297009

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Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker) The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. KRAPP 'Here I end this reel. Box - [ Pause.] - three, spool - [ Pause.] - five. [ Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [ Staring motionless before him.]

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802144386

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The Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822205432

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Hughie by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

THE STORY: Originally produced on Broadway, revived to sellout houses in 1996 starring Al Pacino, HUGHIE was one of O'Neill's last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill de

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472534239

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The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande' by Dirk Van Hulle Pdf

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'La dernière bande'/'Krapp's Last Tape' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: - A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages - A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history - A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783838213699

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Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by Wimbush Andy Pdf

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Author : Eugene Webb
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295805283

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The Plays of Samuel Beckett by Eugene Webb Pdf

In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying tendencies of Beckett's mind and art.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198402

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I Can't Go On, I'll Go On by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed look at his work. Included, among others, are: - The complete plays Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Not I, and That Time - Selections from his novels Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, and The Unnamable - The shorter works “Dante and the Lobster,” “The Expelled,” Imagination Dead Imagine, and Lessness - A selection of Beckett’s poetry and critical writings With an indispensable introduction by editor and Beckett intimate Richard Seaver, and featuring a useful select bibliography, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is indeed an invaluable introduction to a writer who has changed the face of modern literature.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English drama
ISBN : UVA:X004046936

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All that Fall by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Published to celebrate the centenary of Beckett's birth

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Epidemic encephalitis
ISBN : 057312129X

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A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter Pdf

Author : Samuel Beckett,Alan Schneider
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674625226

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No Author Better Served by Samuel Beckett,Alan Schneider Pdf

Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.

Author : Lawrence Graver,Raymond Federman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415159548

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Samuel Beckett by Lawrence Graver,Raymond Federman Pdf

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish dramatist and poet. His use of the stage and dramatic narrative and symbolism has revolutionalized drama in England.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0857425307

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Till Day You Do Part, Or, A Question of Light by Peter Handke Pdf

Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last tape, this book is a monologue delivered by the "she" in Beckett's play. The monologue is prefaced with a description of two stone figures. While the male figure remains "as dead and gone as anyone can," the female bursts into life, and her monologue gradually focuses on Krapp's use of pauses and language to dominate the other characters in the Beckett play. Ultimately, however, her complaints and critique of Krapp become a declaration of her love for Krapp or at least an affirmation of their attachment, as the two of them are ultimately bound together, perhaps even inseparable.