![]() And being the “hapless reader” I am, I’m going to flail around as I write this, and I’ll probably fail when it comes to making my observations. ![]() I’m also not going to approach his plays with the critical eye of, say, Atkinson or any one of the scores of critics and scholars who have approached his work with what Paul Davies describes as “more or less equal proportions of fascination, devotion and horror.” That said, I do want to talk a little about what I think it means to read Beckett – more so than to watch his plays being performed on stage – in this day and age, because I’ve found the play to be particularly resonant with ideas I’ve been floating around in my head for some time. I’ve never seen a full live performance of any of Beckett’s plays on stage (though I did just discover the quite remarkable Beckett Directs Beckett series – YouTube links here (Act I) and here (Act II)). ![]() (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)įirst, some disclaimers. ![]()
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