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Though labeled as an exemplary absurdist dramatist for dozens of years, Samuel Beckett has been successfully put in Irish cultural and historical context thanks to the recent autobiographical studies since the late 1990s. Considering the fact that he wrote several essays on paintings in his early literary career and that he shared artistic interest with Jack B. Yeats with due respect, we need to understand their relationship and Jack Yeats's influence on Beckett. We can identify striking similarities between the mood of Two Travellers and Man and Woman Observing the Moon by Jack Yeats and the dramatic situation reflected in Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Themes of isolation and loneliness Beckett saw in Jack's paintings were seminal inspirations for Beckett's Godot, Molloy and Krapp's Last Tape. Moreover, dramatic themes and situations in Jack's literary works including In Sand, The Charmed Life, and La La Noo also foreshadow Beckett's unique dramatic world. In brief, Jack Yeats' paintings, rather than literature, exercised pivotal roles in Beckett's creation of his own dramatic mode.
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Samuel Beckett, Jack B. Yeats, paintings, Waiting for Godot,drama, motif, characters
