Endgame (Masterplots II: Drama)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Absurdist
- Time of Work: Unspecified, perhaps after a future catastrophe
- Setting: The interior of a house near a seacoast
- Principal Characters: Nagg, Nell, Hamm, Clov
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature
- Subjects: Blindness or blind persons, Communication, Existentialism, Isolation
- Locales: Earth
The Play
In the center of a dimly lighted, bare interior, Hamm sits in an armchair, covered by a sheet. Two ashbins, similarly covered, stand at front left. Clov walks stiffly to the back wall and looks at two small windows, high up left and right; then, with the aid of a stepladder, he looks out of both. He removes the sheet from the ashbins, looks into one, and finally uncovers Hamm, laughing briefly after each of these activities.
Hamm, in a dressing gown and apparently asleep, has several objects about his person, the most striking of which is a large, bloodstained...
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