Abstract
When one reads Beckett's works for the first time, one cannot but be stricken by the overabundant repetitions the text is replete with. There seems to be a real compulsion of repetition in various forms- in Beckett' plays. This is most evident in his shorter works. During this seminar, we have tried to shape a definition of textuality, never confining the term to one single meaning. In Beckett's works, textuality transpires from every word, every pause, and every silence, and struggles not to be frozen by the text. The Beckettian text along with its reproduction as a theatrical performance or a television film, introduces the reader to the plot with the quintessence of textuality which invites multiple readings, and thus different interpretations of textuality, aimed at reaching the "it", the secret subject of each play, as well as for the sake of representation, which refuses to be caught. The two Shorter Plays under study here, entitled ?What Where' and ?Play', partake of all those features. They are perfect illustrations of Beckett's art, for they present us with a hardly ever frozen textuality, which emerges from all parts of the texts, through endless repetitions, and the so-called "différance", and through this everlasting quest for the "it".
