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	Act Without Words I - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Act Without Words I is a short play by Samuel Beckett.
		Just as Beckett's Act Without Words II has been compared to the myth of Sisyphus, the man in Act Without Words I is often compared to Tantalus, who stood in a pool of water which receded every time he bent to drink it.
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	education.music.us /A/Act-Without-Words-I.htm (515 words)

	Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice." (Irish Times, 18 February 1956, p.
		The words of Nell—one of the two characters in Endgame who are trapped in ashbins, from which they occasionally peek their heads to speak—can best summarize the themes of the plays of Beckett's middle period:
		Beckett's final work, the 1988 poem "What is the Word", was written in bed in the nursing home where he spent the last days of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Beckett (4478 words)

	ipedia.com: Samuel Beckett Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		He returned to that city after the outbreak of war in 1939, preferring, in his own words, 'France at war to Ireland neutral'.
		Writers like Havel, Aidan Higgins and Harold Pinter have publicly stated their indebtedness to Beckett's example, but he has had a much wider influence on experimental writing since the 1950s, from the Beat generation to the happenings of the 1960s and beyond.
		In an Irish context, he has acted as a major model and influence on writers like Trevor Joyce and Catherine Walsh who are writing in modes that look to the modernist tradition as an alternative to the dominant realist mainstream.
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	Samuel Beckett Resources and Links
		The word "war" itself appears nowhere in Godot or in those strange lyrical fictions of 1945-1946 which were published in The Expelled, The Calmant and The End and, in 1955, in Stories and Texts for Nothing.
		Included is the entire text of the play (Acts 1 and 2) with reciprocal links to the notes.
		Acting "at the nerve ends": Beckett, Blau, and the Necessary by Phillip Zarrilli, Univ. of Wisconsin.
	www.samuel-beckett.net (8617 words)

	Plays
		Illustrated brown cover has mild wear, pages a little tanned by age, otherwise a clean interior, staple binding is tight.
		Summary: "The Living Shakespeare acting version of Macbeth demanded a number of changes...
		All variations from the accepted text are mentioned in the Notes, except for minor word changes." 32 pages.
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