Book description
Originally written in French and translated into English by
Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal
Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM: Clov! CLOV: Yes. HAMM: Nature has
forgotten us. CLOV: There's no more nature. HAMM: No more nature! You
exaggerate. CLOV: In the vicinity. HAMM: But we breathe, we change! We
lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV: Then she hasn't
forgotten us.
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.
