The Plays of Samuel Beckett

by Eugene Webb

In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void―the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying tendencies of Beckett's mind and art.

161 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1973

About the author

Professor Emeritus Eugene Webb was Professor of Comparative Religion and Comparative Literature and Associate Director of the Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington.

Professor Webb is the author of seven books, including two on the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, as well as The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature (1975), Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History (1981), Philosophers of Consciousness (1988), and The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France (1993), World View and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development (2009), and In Search of the Triune God: The Christian Paths of East and West (2014).