Results for: books tagged ‘Samuel Beckett’
Prince Charming: Christopher Logue
Prince Charming is the story of Christopher Logue: one of our great poets and literary mavericks, part of a circle that included Kenneth Tynan and Richard Ingrams. It tells, in ... More
Varieties of Parable: Louis MacNeice
Varieties of Parable stands as MacNeice's last considered statement about poetry and poetics, and one of his most atmospheric and personal acts of literary criticism. More
Watt: Samuel Beckett
Written in Roussillon during World War II, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other ... More
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays: Samuel Beckett
Krapp’s Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958. Roy Walker described it as ‘a solo, if that is the word, for ... More
Endgame: Samuel Beckett
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.‘Outside lies a world of death. Inside ... More
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still: Samuel Beckett
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness ... More
Murphy: Samuel Beckett
Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of ... More