{"product_id":"endgame-samuel-beckett-9780802149107","title":"Endgame: Production Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Packed with wonderful details illustrating Beckett's literary and dramatic brilliance and providing fascinating interpretive aids to these important plays.\"--David E. Liss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mid-1960s, Samuel Beckett himself directed all his major plays in Berlin, Paris, and London. For most of these productions, he meticulously prepared notebooks for his personal use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theatrical notebooks of Beckett that are reproduced in facsimile here are translated and annotated and thus offer a remarkable record of his own involvement with the staging of his texts. They present his solutions to practical problems but also provide a unique insight into the ways he envisaged his plays. With additional information taken from Beckett's own annotated and corrected copies, the editors have been able to constitute a new revised text for each of these major plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeckett directed two separate productions of \u003cem\u003eEndgame\u003c\/em\u003e, once with the Schiller Theater Company in Berlin in 1967, and again with the San Quentin Drama Workshop in 1980. Beckett's revisions for both maintain a consistency that makes a 'corrected' (Beckett's word) text not only possible but desirable, a reflection of the substantial amount of thinking and theatrical testing the work has undergone since its publication. No previous edition includes the complete production-generated changes. This volume includes, moreover, the 'final' text for \u003cem\u003eEndgame\u003c\/em\u003e revised and approved by Samuel Beckett.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Beckett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802149103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802149107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 7.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Samuel Beckett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947188420863,"sku":"9780802149107","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fdc7c908-e170-4a99-a839-3e2c472ce19b.jpg?v=1681517246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/endgame-samuel-beckett-9780802149107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}