Krapp's Last Tape : and other dramatic pieces / Samuel Beckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Evergreen book

An Evergreen book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Beckett, Samuel.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

141 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : [Published by] Grove Weidenfeld [a division of Wheatland Corporation, [1960]

Summary:

This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play, Krapp's Last Tape, evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday. The two radio plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall "plumbs the same pessimistic depths [as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity" (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife.

Contents:

Krapp's Last Tape, a play in one act

All that Fall, a play for radio

Embers, a play for radio

Act without Words I, a mime for one player

Act without Words II, a mime for two players.

Notes:

"First Evergreen Edition 1960."

"'Krapp's Last Tape' was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London on Octber 18, 1958 ..."

"'All that Fall' was first presented by The British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme on January 13, 1957."

"'Embers' was first produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme on June 24, 1959."

"'Acts without Words I' ("Acte sans Paroles') was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London on April 3, 1957 ..."

"Cover design by Roy Kuhlman."

Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy is "28" printing.

ISBN:

0802151345

OCLC:

671845054