Towards The Construction of New Historiographies in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson

Abstract: This paper probes into the authors’ art and vision as they advocate the construction of new historiographies. The chapter helps us to understand what societal, political, economic, and other related issues seem to change the reading of history over time. So, in this chapter, the historiographies Beckett and Wilson construct are looked at as history woven by time and circumstance. The chapter examines how Beckett and Wilson wrote their books and why these books were recorded as such. By examining this aspect in this chapter helps us understand why historical events have been analyzed and interpreted so differently over time. In this regard, historiography does not only look at history itself, but also at the wider, overlying issues that has shaped the recording of history in Beckett’s Krapp Last Tape and Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Thus, this paper examines Beckett and Wilson’s visions as they seek to create new historiographies.