Absurdism in Modern Drama: Examining the Role of Setting in Revealing the Theme with Reference to Samuel Beckett’s Play Endgame

Abstract

Throughout the researcher’s observations, it has been realized that previous studies in the field of the absurd drama have not profoundly dealt in significant detail with all the manifestations of setting in the absurd drama, and therefore this subject matter needs to be studied in detail in order to remove the gap made in this respect.  This study is mainly concerned with the analysis of a select of Samuel Beckett’s plays as far as the relationship between the themes they expose and the setting in which their actions figure out. Moreover, the study sheds light on the significance of the setting in the absurd drama and its function in drama in general and in the absurd drama in particular. The plays chosen for this study are End Game. The choice of these two plays is made in accordance with fact that these two plays in particular have not been widely studied and analyzed from the setting perspective. In a word, they have not got the kind of popularity Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot has got.

            Therefore, this kind of study adds significant analysis of those two plays as far as the theme and the setting of them are concerned.