false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg 54028 4 Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, "Endgame" was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM - Clov! CLOV - Yes. HAMM - Nature has forgotten us. CLOV - There's no more nature. HAMM - No more nature! You exaggerate. CLOV In the vicinity. HAMM - But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV - Then she hasn't forgotten us. 5655853 1958 Endgame and Act Without Words total:1294|5:502|4:442|3:242|2:79|1:29| 1294 5191 1596 67 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 5 1 false Tue Sep 16 18:27:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 19:13:10 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 4 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:28:11 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 10:49:29 -0800 2008 2wice Hamm: The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

(Pause)

Perhaps i could throw myself out on the floor.

(he pushes himself painfully off his seat, falls back again)

Dig my nails into the cracks and drag myself forward with my fingers.

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Everything is grey. There is no colour anywhere. At centre stage sits Hamm, in a chair on casters, with a bloo...more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:37:12 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 14:20:21 -0700 2009
After reading "Endgame" once, my initial reaction was that the play seemed to be the basis for every Beckettian cliche that is all-too-familiar to contemporary readers (see Durang's "The Actor's Nightmare"). Haggard ...more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 5 1 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Wed Jul 25 10:21:16 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 10:21:42 -0700 2007 "We shouldn't."]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 5 0 false Fri May 02 23:59:32 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 00:01:55 -0700 2008 Godot, the sparse settings, and the physicality of the acting, carry the emotion as much as the dialog. And this comes through in the writing via the sta...more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 0 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 09 20:45:24 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 20:55:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 4 0 false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 14:23:18 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 09:25:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Thu Dec 11 19:45:24 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 20:34:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 5 0 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:48:20 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:52:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 10 14:20:48 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 14:21:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 4 0 false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 12:02:39 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:10:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 06:48:27 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 06:55:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:22:38 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:24:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 2 0 false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 15:19:10 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 15:25:58 -0700 2008 Endgame this morning. It's on my grad school reading list, and it was alright. I'd rather have read the book by Derrick Jensen by the same name, or even the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book. ;)

The big theme I saw in the play was entropy--cool scifi theme! Everything...more...]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 2 0 false Sat May 09 12:06:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 19:06:27 -0700 2009
I think a lot of people give it good reviews an ratings just because it's by Beckett, and they probably don't understand it either.]]> 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:11:35 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:14:39 -0800 2009 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 3 0 false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:45:11 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:45:11 -0700 2009 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri May 29 09:25:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 09:25:37 -0700 2009 54028 0802150241 9780802150240 1292 67 4.01 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170435463m/54028.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_and_Act_Without_Words 5 0 false Wed Jan 07 12:23:08 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 12:23:49 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=54028