Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place

Four characters play a game of life, concluding with the exit of one character and the immobility of the remaining three, in a study of man's relationship to hi

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, 'Endgame' was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush a