Book
Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
(2016)
Abstract
A short volume on Samuel Beckett's great monologue of memory and disappointment. Every birthday Krapp narrates an account of his past year on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Every birthday he listens to an earlier year's recording before embarking on his current recollection. InKrapp's Last Tape we witness the old man reckoning with his younger selves and his present longings.
Intended for the general reader as well as the Beckett scholar, the book is divided into five brief and focused chapters covering central themes in the play, selected production history, and connections with Beckett's life and work. Responding to the play's intensely autobiographical aspect, the book also unearths a personal relationship to its haunting worries.
Part of Routledge's Fourth Wall Series.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2016
Publisher
Routledge
Citation Information
Daniel Sack. Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel_sack/11/