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In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father passed from this world into the next. On his deathbed, his father's final words to Beckett were fight fight fight and what a morning. Though his father's gallows humor expressed itself in many of the plays Beckett wrote, ultimately Beckett came to his own conclusions about death. The ending lines of his last play may well be a response to his father's final words: It is winter./Without journey./Time passes./That is all./Make sense who may. In his plays, Beckett's efforts to make sense of that journey established him as one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Samuel Beckett and the plays he wrote. Read Beckettin an Hour and experience his plays like never

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