Krapp's Last Tape | Characters
The title character of Krapp’s Last Tape is a disheveled and sullen man who had dreams of being a writer and creating his ‘‘opus magnum,’’ but who instead has spent his life as a solitary and bitter failure. His only companion is, ironically, his own voice, with which he interacts throughout the play through the use of the tape recorder. His isolation is of his own choosing, however, for he is misanthropic to the point of despising even himself, as his comments to the voice on the tape reveal. As his name suggests,...
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