Premium Content Endgame: The Tragedy of Its Time. Putting a Beckett Play to the Aristotelian Test
By Michael Feldman - November 11, 2000
At first glimpse, Samuel Beckett's Endgame has absolutely nothing in common with the model provided in Aristotle's Poetics. Where Aristotle claims the most important element of any tragedy is plot, Endgame seems to have no plot. Where Aristotle discusses the importance of speech(es) conveying moral purpose and character, Endgame has characters that…
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