Samuel Beckett: A postmodern playwright of silence and negation

In this study, Samuel Beckett?s four plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp?s Last Tape and Not I, will be analyzed with a view to highlighting Beckett?s major concerns as a postmodern playwright. These plays were chosen on the grounds that they comprise the main themes of Beckett?s drama and illustrate how he subverts the norms and conventions of traditional drama in order to convey the plight of the modern man in a meaningless world that is devoid of stable values and that therefore resists any traditional interpretations. An in-depth analysis of Company and Stirrings Still will also be offered as these two particular prose works, written in the later period of Beckett?s career, shed light on his previous plays and fictional writings by `revisiting? them in numerous references and allusions.