The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title
[DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: Endgame: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols [PAR] Endgame's opening lines repeat the word "finished," and the rest of the play ... 
Just as death cannot arrive to seal off life, neither can Hamm or Clov escape to ... 
Beckett also makes use of repetitions to underscore the cyclical stasis in 
Endgame.