Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot. It includes Footfalls; the play, That Time, a companion piece to Not I; and Not I, first performed in 1972 at the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, with Jessica Tandy and Henderson Forsythe. A. Alvarez has said of Not I that it "is a theatrical event as powerful and as unprecedented as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. It focuses in one final, unanswerable image all Beckett's lifelong obsessions." Also included are two radio pieces, Radio I and Radio II, as well as two short theater pieces, Theater I and Theater II, all originally written in French and translated by Beckett in 1975. The collection concludes with two television plays, Ghost Trio and ...but the clouds..., which was written in 1976, and is now included in Ends and Odds for the first time with the publication of this new edition.
About the Author
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. He made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
