Endgame

Beckett's after-the-end play: Hamm and Clov in a bare room where nothing happens and nothing stops.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Samuel Beckett

type

Absurdist drama

era

Postwar (1957)

language

French (originally), English

setting

A bare interior with two windows

source text

Beckett's drafts in chess-ending structure

acts

1 act

Relative Scale in Plays

Core Principles & Analysis

• Written in French as Fin de partie in 1957.
• Hamm cannot stand, Clov cannot sit, and the parents live in bins.
• 'Nothing is funnier than unhappiness' is its ruling paradox.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Endgame (play)