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| Original Title: | Happy Days |
| ISBN: | 0571066534 (ISBN13: 9780571066537) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Winnie, Willie |
| Literary Awards: | Obie for Best Foreign Play (1962) |
Samuel Beckett
Paperback | Pages: 48 pages Rating: 3.89 | 5236 Users | 169 Reviews
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| Title | : | Happy Days |
| Author | : | Samuel Beckett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 1998 by Faber & Faber (first published 1961) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Theatre. Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature |
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I still remember the first time I ever got to read a play, it was Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, of which I thought was only OK, not because it wasn't any good, but because I so wanted to see it performed, reading any play isn't going to be anywhere near as good as seeing it with one's own eyes up on the stage. I said to myself I will never read another play again so help me God. However, over time, I asked myself the question - realistically, how many plays am I ever going to see? I've seen a few pretty amateurish productions, but the chances are most of the great plays I will simply never get to witness. So then, the next best thing is to read them, that's a no brainer. Sixty-five plays I have later, and along comes Beckett's Happy Days.I knew he had his roots in creating oddly absurd, existential and avant-garde theatre from reading a couple of his other plays, but nothing prepared me for just how engaging Happy Days would turn out to be. The play tells the story of Winnie – a lonely, desolate, compulsive talker, who is stuck for unknown reasons up to her waist in a mound of earth, whilst her husband, Willie, an almost muted hermit, remains pretty much hidden. Each day begins the same as any any other, triggered by the strident sound of a bell. Winnie then begins her routine in a very meticulous and exact way. Cleaning herself, checking her belongings, speaking aloud to Willie and herself, enduring the baking hot sun. This behaviour is moulded throughout with a sense of tragicomedy, but it's also somewhat mind-bending. Things carry on this way until act number 2, where Winnie is now buried up to her neck.
Beckett's play is largely thought to be about marriage, and the title ‘Happy Days’ is very much an ironic label. Reading the play I found a number of other themes and metaphors that could easily be applied. Considering the main character is physically stuck the whole time, there is actually a great deal of liveliness. Indeed, Beckett’s stage directions are so frequent and so prescriptive, that Winnie’s actions are just as important as her words.
Beckett gets the thumbs up from me. Happy Days!.
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Ratings: 3.89 From 5236 Users | 169 ReviewsCriticism Of Books Happy Days
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.Happy days! LOL!I like this play. I consider myself a big fan of the absurd theatre it represents life as it is.Winnie and her husband Willie, represented most people nowadays sinking in their daily routines without having any purpose. Reading the dialogue between them was a pleasure for me, I enjoyed it. I think it was simple and meaningful. I think Happy Days is more beautiful than Becketts most famous play Waiting for Godot. I
this is a heartbreaking play, and probably the purest and most unsparing of beckett's visions, which is saying something. some irony in the fact that winnie is beckett's saddest character despite (because of) the fact that she is the most optimistic.it's hard to believe an actress could actually pull this play off. it's basically a sixty page stationary monologue (winnie's buried waist- (and then neck-) deep through the whole thing, with only the contents of her bag to work with). i would pay
Another great play. Another happy day.
I still remember the first time I ever got to read a play, it was Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, of which I thought was only OK, not because it wasn't any good, but because I so wanted to see it performed, reading any play isn't going to be anywhere near as good as seeing it with one's own eyes up on the stage. I said to myself I will never read another play again so help me God. However, over time, I asked myself the question - realistically, how many plays am I ever going to see? I've
I had never read anything by Beckett before. I do not usually dedicate that much time to reading plays, actually. What led me to Happy Days? I was looking for Tennessee Williams and Beckett was the one who showed up. Completely different styles, definitely. Thematically speaking though? Not so sure.A reflection on the human condition, I would call it. Odd, yes, but as honest as it gets. The writing is rather frenetic, and also frenetically paused. Winnie seems to fear silence, for it is sound
Fascinating but not my favorite. Evidently Beckett regarded Winnie as a kind of earth mother spirit, indomitable, and I do find some patronizing piety or maybe just pity here, a refusal of the corrosive irony Beckett's male heroes have to endure in the midst of their own eschatological travails. The idea of the setting as a kind of post-apocalyptic degraded vacation-destination beach where the blazing bleaching sun never sets is wonderful, as is the whole mystery of the play's circumstance,
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