Death and the End of Time in Beckett's Endgame and Ionesco's Exit the King

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: A, University of British Columbia (Theatre Dept.), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: Endgame (Fin de Partie) and Exit the King (Le Roi se Meurt) - two plays about fallen kings trapped at the end of time and unable to give meaning to existence. While Hamm and Clov are desperately waiting for death as the only...