tradition of the well-made play emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century. It was also called piece bien faite meaning 'Second Empire Drama'. It was supported mainly by the works of Eugene Scribe , of Dumas , of Emile Augier , and of Victorien Sardou. The tradition reached to the top with Sardou's works in which the techniques of construction invented by Scribe were completely used. Construction and stagecraft are exploited fully rather than the characterization and ideas . In the plot counstruction
emotional reaction to the explicative tirade spat out by a man she may or may not have feelings for. His personal opinion, as stated by his book “Hitchcock”, written by Francois Truffaut, "I always believe in following the advice of the playwright (Victorien) Sardou," Hitchcock once confessed. "He said, 'Torture the women!' The trouble today is that we don't torture women
he has gotten mixed reviews of confusion and shock at the apparent lack of plot and conventional theatrical tropes. Most of audiences at the time of the play's original production were expecting to see theatrical pieces that followed in suit with Victorien Sardou's theory of well-made play—a standard of the theatre for the time—borne out of the arguments found in Aristotle's Poetics (Esslin #). Beckett, in many ways goes against the traditional conventions of this expectation in the theatre, going