A Study of the Two Plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame

This is an essay or critical study examining the theatre of Samuel Beckett within the context of twentieth-century French drama. It argues that the two World Wars drove French theatre to abandon conventional dramatic principles, and that Beckett stands as a leading innovator of the avant-garde, seeking a theatre stripped of traditional stage conventions. The work positions Beckett's theatre as a turning point in dramatic writing, characterisation, and resolution, classifying it as philosophical theatre concerned with human misery and related themes that the source text does not fully state.