Beckett, Samuel
Beckett, Samuel (1906–89),Irish writer whose poems, prose, plays, and even films are permeated with literary reference, sometimes ironic or parodistic, to the work of his classical predecessors. Beckett the minimalist found in Shakespeare's prodigality a vividness of stage and verbal imagery; a bleak and unrelenting tragic vision; and an associative richness and precision of language that is repeatedly drawn upon in poems such as Echo's Bones (1935); prose fictions, including Murphy (1937), Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981), and Worstward Ho (1983); the plays Endgame (1958) and Come and Go (1967); and even the film Ghost Trio (1976).
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