Samuel Beckett in general

Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” and Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” are both quintessential examples of theatre of the absurd. This term arises from a movement that began in post war Paris during the late 1940’s and 1950’s. At this time a select few dramatists were beginning to exhibit new and different tendencies and techniques within their work, they included Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Arrabol, Jean Tardieu, Jean Genet and Eugene Ionesco. The term theatre of the absurd derives from the philosophical use of the word absurd by such existentialist thinkers as Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. Both believed that ...  Read the complete review