The plays of Samuel Beckett
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The plays of Samuel Beckett
(Critical companions)
Methuen Drama, 2013
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work.
Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Stage Plays
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Krapp's Last Tape
Happy Days
Play
Come and Go
Footfalls
The Radio Plays
All That Fall
Embers
The Old Tune
Words and Music, Cascando, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II
The Teleplays
Eh Joe
Ghost Trio
... but the clouds ...
Nacht und Traume
Quad
What Where
Critical Perspectives
'Ghosts: Chaos and Freedom in Beckett's Spectral Theatre' by Xerxes Mehta
'A Spectrum of Fidelity, an Ethic of Impossibility: Directing Beckett' by Nicholas Johnson
'Beckett on Television, Beckett on Love: A Response to Badiou' by Graley Herren
'Krapp's Last Tape and Mapping Modern Memory' by Dustin Anderson
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
Chronology
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"