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Authors: Samuel Beckett
The Complete Dramatic Works (62 page)
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School
and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut
in 1930 with
Whoroscope
and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of
his most famous plays,
Waiting for Godot
, in 1949 but it wasn’t published in English until 1954.
Waiting for Godot
brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure
in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961.
Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death
in 1989.
This collection first published in 1986
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2012
All rights reserved
Waiting for Godot
© Samuel Beckett 1955 and 1965;
Endgame
© Grove Press 1958;
Happy Days
© Grove Press Inc. 1961;
All That Fall
© Samuel Beckett 1957;
Act Without Words I
© Samuel Beckett 1958;
Act Without Words II
© Samuel Beckett 1959;
Krapp’s Last Tape
© Samuel Beckett 1958;
Rough for Theatre I
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Rough for Theatre II
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Embers
© Samuel Beckett 1959;
Rough for Radio I
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Rough for Radio II
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Words and Music
© Samuel Beckett 1962;
Cascando
© Samuel Beckett 1963;
Play
© Samuel Beckett 1963;
Film
© Samuel Beckett 1967;
The Old Tune
, adapt.
© Samuel Beckett 1963;
Come and Go
© Samuel Beckett 1966;
Eh Joe
© Samuel Beckett 1967;
Breath
© Samuel Beckett 1970;
Not I
© Samuel Beckett 1973;
That Time
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Footfalls
© Samuel Beckett 1976;
Ghost Trio
© Samuel Beckett 1976; …
but the clouds
… © Samuel Beckett 1977;
A Piece of Monologue
© Samuel Beckett 1979;
Rockaby
© Samuel Beckett 1982;
Ohio Impromptu
© Samuel Beckett 1982;
Quad
© Samuel Beckett 1984;
Catastrophe
© Samuel Beckett 1984;
Nacht und Träume
© Samuel Beckett 1984;
What Where
© Samuel Beckett 1984
This collection © Samuel Beckett 1986
The right of Samuel Beckett to be identified as author of this work has been asserted
in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Application for the performing rights of
The Old Tune
should be addressed to Casarotto Company, National House, 60–66 Wardour Street, London,
W1V 3HP, and of all other dramatic works included in this volume to Curtis Brown Ltd,
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