Juno and the Paycock LECTURE 9 LECTURE 10 An Introductory Talk: An Overview of Juno and the Paycock Play’s Background Settings Plot Characters Writer’s Life and Work The Play and its S[r]
(1)DRAMA II
(2)SYNOPSIS
1. A conclusive talk on Juno and the Paycock (9 14)
2. Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett 3. Samuel Beckett’s Biography
•An Overview of Waiting for Godot 4. Characters in the Play
•Setting of the Play
(3)(4)(5)(6)Waiting for Godot
By
Samuel Beckett
(7)1906 December 22, 1989)
• An absurdist Irish playwright, novelist and poet.
• studied French,
Italian and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927, and
(8)•There he met James Joyce, who was to have a massive influence on him.
(9)• In 1929 he published his first work, a critical essay
defending Joyce's work.
• in 1930 he won a small
literary prize with his poem "Whoroscope," which largely concerns René Descartes, another major influence
• In 1930, he returned to
(10)his critical study of Proust there in 1931, and in 1933, in the wake of his father's death, he began two years of Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Wilfred Bion, who in
1935 took him to hear Jung's third Tavistock lecture, an event which he would still recall many years later.
• In 1932 he worked on his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling
Women, but after many rejections
from publishers he decided instead to split it into several
smaller parts and retitled it More
Pricks Than Kicks, and in 1933 it