How tall was Samuel Beckett?

Answer 1

The author of the masterpiece Waiting for Godot (a play written around 1950), was also a novelist, a short story writer, a poet and an essayist. His works have been said to be deeply pessimistic about the human condition, but that view many not be too fair. There is also a great and often wicked sense of humour in most of his works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

ANSWER: Samuel Beckett is perhaps the greatest playwright of the twentieth Century. His work Waiting for Godotis indeed a masterpiece, and it may or may not be fair that his work is viewed as pessimistic but there is a sense in all of his plays and even his novels of waiting to die, a hopeless life spent waiting to die. This is ironic given that Beckett himself lived well into his 90's. Beckett was somewhat of a misanthrope and seemed evermore annoyed with actors and their intrusive interpretations of his work. One of his last plays, Breath, is less than thirty seconds long and has no actors in it.

Answer 2

Beckett is probably most famous for Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Following is a list of Beckett's plays:


Eleutheria (1940s; pub 1995)
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Act Without Words I (1956)
Act Without Words II (1956)
Endgame (1957)
Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
Rough for Theatre I (late 1950s)
Rough for Theatre II (late 1950s)
Happy Days (1960)
Play (1963)
Come and Go (1965)
Breath (1969)
Not I (1972)
That Time (1975)
Footfalls (1975)
A Piece of Monologue (1980)
Rockaby (1981)
Ohio Impromptu (1981)
Catastrophe (1982)
What Where (1983)