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Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot,Samuel Beckett (1906-1989),Samuel Beckett was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. He was born near Dublin, Ireland, on April 13, 1906 into a Protestant, middle class home. His father was a quantity surveyor and his mother worked as a nurse. He attended the Portora Royal boarding school in Northern Ireland, then entered Trinity College, to study French and Italian from 1923 to 1927. In 1929, Beckett published his first work, a critical essay. The essay defends Joyce‘s work and method, chiefly from allegations of wanton obscurity and dimness.,Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and he became increasingly a minimalist in his later career. As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists.,He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called “Theatre of the Absurd“. As such, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his “writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation“.,,,,Samuel Beckett’s grave Montparnasse Cemetery,Samuel Beckett depicted on an Irish commemorative coin celebrating the 100th Anniversary of his birth.,On 10 December 2009, the newest bridge across the River Liffey in Dublin was opened and named the Samuel Beckett Bridge in his honour.,Works,Beckett’s most famous contributions to modern theater include Waiting for Godot (1952), Endgame, (1957), and Happy Days (1961). These dark comedies revolve around individuals who are trapped in predictable yet disturbing situations. Solitude, paralysis, and absurdity were some of Beckett’s greatest obsessions, and his novels in French address these themes with a combination of grotesque humor and hauntingly lyrical prose.,Writing career,his early works, up until the end of World War II in 1945,his middle period, stretching from 1945 until the early 1960s, during which he wrote what are probably his best-known works,his late period, from the early 1960s until Beckett's death in 1989, during which his works tended to become shorter,Theatre Eleutheria (1940s; published 1995) Waiting for Godot (1952) Act Without Words I (1956) Act Without Words II (1956) Endgame (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Rough for Theatre I (late 1950s) Rough for Theatre II (late 1950s) Happy Days (1960) Play (1963) Come and Go (1965) Breath (1969) Not I (1972) That Time (1975) Footfalls (1975) A Piece of Monologue (1980) Rockaby (1981) Ohio Impromptu (1981) Catastrophe (1982) What Where (1983),Radio All That Fall (1956) From an Abandoned Work (1957) Embers (1959) Rough for Radio I (1961) Rough for Radio II (1961) Words and Music (1961) Cascando (1962) Television Eh Joe (1965) Ghost Trio (1975) . but the clouds . (1976) Quad I + II (1981) Nacht und Träume (1982) Beckett on Film (2002) Hosted by Jeremy Irons, Produced by PBS Cinema Film (1965),Dramatic works,Prose Novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women (1932; published 1992) Murphy (1938) Watt (1945; published 1953) Mercier and Camier (1946; published 1974) Molloy (1951) Malone Dies (1951) The Unnamable (1953) How It Is (1961) Novellas The Expelled (1946) The Calmative (1946) The End (1946) The Lost Ones (1971) Company (1980) Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) Worstward Ho (1983),Stories More Pricks Than Kicks (1934) First Love (1945) Stories and Texts for Nothing (1954) Fizzles (1976) Stirrings Still (1988) Non-fiction Proust (1931) Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) (1949) Disjecta (1929 - 1967),Poetry Whoroscope (1930) Echo's Bones and other Precipitates (1935) Collected Poems in English (1961) Collected Poems in English and French (1977) What is the Word (1989),Waiting for Godot a tragicomedy in two acts,1st English edition translated by the author,1952 written in French, and published. 1953 premiered at the Babylone theater in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly through word of mouth and it soon became quite famous. Other productions around the world rapidly followed. The play initially failed in the United States, likely as a result of being misbilled as “the laugh of four continents.“ A subsequent production in New York City was more carefully advertised and gained some success. 1954 the English translation appeared.,The play has often been viewed as fundamentally existentialist in its take on life. The fact that none of the characters retain a clear mental history means that they are constantly struggling to prove their existence. Waiting for Godot is part of the Theater of the Absurd. This implies that it is meant to be irrational. Absurd theater does away with the concepts of drama, chronological plot, logical language, themes, and recognizable settings. There is also a split between the intellect and。