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The Plays of Samuel Beckett.
Title:
The Plays of Samuel Beckett.
Author:
Weiss, Katherine.
ISBN:
9781408145586
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (203 pages)
Series:
Critical Companions
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Stage Plays -- Waiting for Godot -- Endgame -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Happy Days -- Play -- Come and Go -- Footfalls -- Conclusion -- 2 The Radio Plays -- All That Fall -- Embers -- The Old Tune -- Words and Music, Cascando, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II -- Conclusion -- 3 The Teleplays -- Eh Joe -- Ghost Trio -- … but the clouds… -- Nacht und Träume -- Quad -- What Where -- Conclusion -- 4 Critical Perspectives -- Xerxes Mehta Ghosts: Chaos and Freedom in Beckett's Spectral Theatre -- Nicholas Johnson A Spectrum of Fidelity, an Ethic of Impossibility: Directing Beckett -- Graley Herren Beckett on Television, Beckett on Love: A Response to Badiou -- Dustin Anderson Krapp's Last Tape and Mapping Modern Memory -- 5 Interviews -- Wendy Salkind on Not I -- Bill Largess on Ohio Impromptu -- Wendy Salkind, Peggy Yates and Bill Largess on Play -- Sam McCready on That Time and Ohio Impromptu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of selected events, performances and publications -- Further reading -- About the Author -- Credits -- eCopyright.
Abstract:
The Plays of Samuel Beckett provides a stimulating analysis of Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre, encompassing his stage, radio and television plays. Ideal for students, this major study combines analysis of each play by Katherine Weiss with interveiws and essays from practitioners and scholars.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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