Krapp's Last Tape Essays and Criticism

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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.

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