Krapp's Last Tape | Essays and Criticism

  • Turning Away from Humanity

    In this essay, Moran examines the ways in which Beckett’s play explores a man’s turning away from humanity to pursue his dreams of artistic success.

  • Krapp’s Last Tape and the Proustian Vision

    Oberg examines the nature of self in Beckett’s play, delineating the similarities between Krapp’s Last Tape and the works of Marcel Proust, a French author who greatly influenced the playwright.

  • It’s Not All Bananas

    Hewes reviews a production of Krapp’s Last Tape, finding the play to contain a ‘‘passion for life and a robust poetry’’ that the critic found lacking in Beckett’s other plays, notably Endgame and Waiting for Godot.