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Samuel Beckett

Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes

Spring 2001

Antipepsis*

By Samuel Beckett

And the number was uneven In the green of holy Stephen Where before the ass the cart Was harnessed for a foreign part. In this should not be seen the […]

Drama

Summer 1979

A Piece of Monologue

By Samuel Beckett

Curtain. Faint diffuse light. Speaker stands well off centre downstage audience left. White hair, white nightgown, white socks. Two metres to his left, same level, same height, standard lamp, skull-sized […]