Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande

MS-HRC-SB-4-2-1

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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle

Holding Library: Harry Ransom Center (MS SB/4/2/1)

Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as ET1

Untitled ['Krapp's Last Tape']. Typed manuscript, signed, March 1958, 4 pp., 4to. Typescript I. With numerous autograph revisions and additions in black ink. There are a few doodles. The text varies considerably from the published version and lacks, in particular, the introductory stage directions and description of the setting. The protagonist appears as 'A'. At the top of page 1 Beckett has written: 'Typescript I of Krapp's Last Tape 3.58.' Inscribed, in blue ink, at the bottom of page 4: 'for / Jake Schwartz / Sam. Beckett / March 1958'.

Lake, Carlton, ed. (1984), No Symbols Where None Intended: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center (Austin: Humanities Research Center), p. 105

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