: About Me

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is a highly significant playwright of the 20th century Absurd Drama. Beckett is mostly celebrated for reflecting the spirit of his time in his works in terms of the individual's reaction to overwhelming social and political changes of the 20th century. As Yksel points out, "Beckett's works are the productions of an ironic golden age [20th century], in which the developing technological and economic power was used as a means of oppression on man, the balance on earth was subverted, two World Wars and many local wars, where all facilities were mobilized for the mas...