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4Richard Hornby, Drama, Metadrama and Theatre, London : Associate University Press,1986, p. 32, p. 32, p. 45, p. 32, p. 104, p.117.
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6Paul Lawley,"Stages of identity: from Krapp's Last Tape to Play", The Cambridge Companion to Beckett,pp. 88 - 105.
7Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, Riverhead Books, 1994, p. 466.
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9Samuel Beckett, Endgame, New York: Grove Press, 1958.
