<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKama vile Beckett aliandika kwa ajili ya opera ya sabuni, wakati mwingine mashairi yake, wakati mwingine pseudo-shairi, na prose intermittently gorofa inaonekana kuwa kuiga pale ya, mbadala, Eugene ONeill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, na Shakespeare, Simon anasema.  <response>: Like Beckett written for soap opera, says Lyons; its sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene ONeill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon. 