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Loneliness and Emptiness Samuel Beckett- Happy Days

Loneliness and Emptiness Samuel Beckett- Happy Days. 9743022 Connie Yen. Samuel Beckett Theme- Loneliness and Emptiness Approaches to directing. Outline. Irish  avant-garde novelist,  playwright , theatre director, poet. Wrote in both English and French.

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Loneliness and Emptiness Samuel Beckett- Happy Days

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  1. Loneliness and EmptinessSamuel Beckett- Happy Days 9743022Connie Yen

  2. Samuel Beckett • Theme- Loneliness and Emptiness • Approaches to directing Outline

  3. Irish avant-garde novelist,  playwright, theatre director, poet. • Wrote in both English and French. • A bleak, tragicomicoutlook on human nature, often coupled withblack comedy. • most influential writers of the 20th century.Strongly influenced by James Joyce • Key writers in the "Theatre of the Absurd". 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature Samuel Barclay Beckett(13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

  4. Strings of rituals. • Insecurity of being alone. • Wi”nn”ie and Wi”ll”ie. • Coupling. • Words are empty. Loneliness and Emptiness

  5. Beckett guides the players to “concrete, simple and exact actions”; his interventions are almost always “not on the side of subtlety but simplicity.” (Enoch Brater, 1975) The Approaches to Directing

  6. Thank you for your listening

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