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The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett
Year
2010
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Grove Atlantic
Summary
Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter 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 Pignet's The Old Tune, and more recent Catastrophe, What Where, Quad, and Night and Dreams. Includes: • All That Fall • Act Without Words I • Act Without Words II • Krapp's Last Tape • Rough for Theatre I • Rough for Theatre II • Embers • Rough for Radio I • Rough for Radio II • Words and Music • Cascando • Play • Film • The Old Tune • 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 Träume • What Where