Samuel Beckett - The Collected Shorter Plays

The Collected Shorter Plays

WORKS BY SAMUEL BECKETT PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS

Collected Poems in English and French

The Collected Shorter Plays

(All That Fall, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Krapps Last Tape, Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II, Embers, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,... but the clouds... , A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht and Trume, What Where)

The Complete Short Prose: 19291989, edited by S. E. Gontarski

(Assumption, Sedendo et Quiescendo, Text, A Case in a Thousand, First Love, The Expelled, The Calmative, The End, Texts for Nothing 113, From an Abandoned Work, The Image, All Strange Away, Imagination Dead Imagine, Enough, Ping, Lessness, The Lost Ones, Fizzles 18, Heard in the Dark 1, Heard in the Dark 2, One Evening, As the story was told, The Cliff, neither, Stirrings Still, Variations on a Still Point, Faux Dparts, The Capital of the Ruins)

Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment

Endgame and Act Without Words

First Love and Other Shorts

Grove Centenary Editions

Volume I: Novels

(Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier)

Volume II: Novels

(Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, How It Is)

Volume III: Dramatic Works

Volume IV: Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism

Happy Days

Happy Days: Production Notebooks

How It Is

I Cant Go On, Ill Go On:

A Samuel Beckett Reader

Krapps Last Tape

(All That Fall, Embers, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II)

Mercier and Camier

Molloy

More Pricks Than Kicks

(Dante and the Lobster, Fingal, Ding-Dong, A Wet Night, Love and Lethe, Walking Out, What a Misfortune, The Smeraldinas Billet Doux, Yellow, Draff)

Murphy

Nohow On

(Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho)

Proust

The Shorter Plays: Theatrical Notebooks, edited by S. E. Gontarski

(Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Footfalls, That Time, What Where, Not I)

Stories and Texts for Nothing

(The Expelled, The Calmative, The End, Texts for Nothing 113)

Three Novels

(Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition

Waiting for Godot: Theatrical Notebooks

Watt

Samuel Beckett

This collection copyright 1984 by Samuel Beckett

Act Without Words I 1959 by Les ditions de Minuit; Act Without Words II 1959 by Les ditions de Minuit; All That Fall 1957 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Breath 1970 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; ... but the clouds ... 1977 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Cascando 1963 by Les ditions de Minuit; Catastrophe 1984 by Les ditions de Minuit; Come and Go 1968 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Eh Joe 1967 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Embers 1959 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Film 1967 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Footfalls 1976 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Ghost Trio 1976 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Krapps Last Tape 1958 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Nacht und Trume 1984 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Not I 1973 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Ohio Impromptu 1982 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; A Piece of Monologue 1982 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Play 1964 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Quad 1984 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Rockaby 1982 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; Rough for Radio I 1976 by Les ditions de Minuit; Rough for Radio II 1976 by Les ditions de Minuit; Rough for Theatre I 1976 by Les ditions de Minuit; Rough for Theatre II 1976 by Les ditions de Minuit; That Time 1976 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett; What Where 1984 by Les ditions de Minuit; Words and Music 1966 by The Estate of Samuel Beckett.

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The Collected Shorter Plays

A play for radio

Mrs. Rooney (Maddy), a lady in her seventies

Christy, a carter

Mr. Tyler, a retired bill-broker

Mr. Slocum, Clerk of the Racecourse

Tommy, a porter

Mr. Barrell, a station-master

Miss Fitt, a lady in her thirties

A Female Voice

Dolly, a small girl

Mr. Rooney (Dan), husband of Mrs. Rooney, blind

Jerry, a small boy

Rural sounds. Sheep, bird, cow, cock, severally, then together.

Silence.

Mrs. Rooney advances along country road towards railway station. Sound of her dragging feet.

Music faint from house by way. Death and the Maiden.

The steps slow down, stop.