Download or read book Beckett the Playwright written by John Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett’s success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables them to approach Beckett’s drama in a particularly fruitful way: ‘Their analysis is clever yet level-headed, readable but does not shirk complexities.’ (Times Educational Supplement). ‘Brilliant collection of essays on Beckett and his works.’ (Irish Times)
Download or read book Beckett the Playwright written by John Fletcher and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1985 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a brief survey of Beckett's life and career, examines his major plays, and discusses their themes style, and performance
Download or read book About Beckett written by John Fletcher and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett's work is so significant and enduring. Professor Fletcher first met Beckett in 1961 and his book is filled not only with insights into the work but also interviews with Beckett and first-hand stories and observations by those who helped to put his work on the stage, including Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Roger Blin, Peter Hall, Max Wall and George Devine. As an introduction to Beckett and his work, Professor Fletcher's book is incomparable.
Download or read book Samuel Beckett is Closed written by Michael Coffey and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, genre-defying meditation, with Beckett at its origin, that touches on mysteries as varied as literary celebrity, baseball, and why we feel the need to be cruel to one another Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished "Long Observation of the Ray," of which only six manuscript pages exist, poet and critic Michael Coffey interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes. This rhythm of themes and genres--involving personal memoir, literary criticism, Beckett studies, contemporary political reportage and accounts of state-sponsored torture in appropriated texts, plus an Arabian Tale and even a baseballplay-by-play--produce a work at once sculptural, theatrical, mathematical and above all lyrical, a new form of narrative answering to a freshened rule set. In executing Beckett's most radical undertaking--one scholar referred to "Long Observation of the Ray" as a "monument to extinction"--Coffey gives readers access to an open field in which ruminations on writing mix with an engagement with Beckett scholarship as well as the unsettling chaos in today's world. Although Beckett, like any writer, had his share of abandoned works, he was in the habit of "unabandoning" on occasion. Coffey's effort here salvages a Beckett project from a half-century ago and brings it to the surface, with the contemporary markings of its hauling.
Download or read book No Author Better Served written by Samuel Beckett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.
Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Christopher Murray and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary celebration of Samuel Beckett's influence on postmodernism.
Download or read book Beckett in the Theatre written by Dougald McMillan and published by Riverrun Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Beckett s Theatre in America written by N. Bianchini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Download or read book The Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Eugene Webb and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines and evaluates Beckett's art and achievements as a playwright and discusses his attitudes toward the human condition.
Download or read book Beckett in the Theatre From Waiting for Godot to Krapps last tape written by Dougald McMillan and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beckett written by John Fletcher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book affords a lively and fresh introduction to Beckett’s theatre. Both authors stress that ‘Beckett was waiting for the theatre as the theatre was waiting for Beckett.’ The differing backgrounds of the two authors of this study have enabled them to approach Beckett’s drama in a particularly fruitful way. This book will be of interest to students of literature and drama.
Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Pascale Casanova and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically subversive—doing for writing what Kandinsky did for art—and in the process presents the key to some of the most profound enigmas of Beckett’s writing.
Download or read book Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Katherine H. Burkman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.
Download or read book The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated Krapp's Last Tape, Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I, and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for Film, his adaptation of Robert Pignet's The Old Tune, and more recent Catastrophe, What Where, Quad, and Night and Dreams. Includes: All That Fall Act Without Words I Act Without Words II Krapp's Last Tape Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre II Embers Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Words and Music Cascando Play Film The Old Tune Come and Go Eh Joe Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Ghost Trio …but the clouds… A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Quad Catastrophe Nacht und Träume What Where
Download or read book The Collected Shorter Plays written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.
Download or read book Beckett in an Hour written by E. Teresa Choate and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-sevenyear-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father passed from this world into the next. On his deathbed, his father¿s final words to Beckett were ¿fight fight fight¿ and ¿what a morning.¿ Though his father¿s gallows humor expressed itself in many of the plays Beckett wrote, ultimately Beckett came to his own conclusions about death. The ending lines of his last play may well be a response to his father¿s final words: ¿It is winter./Without journey./Time passes./That is all./Make sense who may.¿ In his plays, Beckett¿s efforts to ¿make sense¿ of that ¿journey¿ established him as one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century.Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Samuel Beckett and the plays he wrote. Read Beckett in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!The book features:¿ Beckett in an Hour, the primary essay in the book¿ Beckett In a Minute, a snapshot chronology¿ A complete listing of Beckett¿s work¿ A list of Beckett¿s contemporaries in all fields¿ Excerpts from Beckett¿s plays¿ An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader¿ An index of the main essay.Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from theGreek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwrightand his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.Dr. E. Teresa Choate, a professor, director, and President of Alpha Psi Omega, the National Honor Theatre Society. ¿Samuel Beckett has always been there; I do not recall the one play, one production, or one experience when this playwright entered my consciousness; Beckett was Beckett, the watershed playwright of the 20th century.
Download or read book Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett written by Enoch Brater and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic. 'An eloquent, witty and erudite collection of essays that illuminates Beckett's drama and prose fiction from a number of complementary perspectives. Brater's precise explication of the interwoven tropes of language and mise-en-scène is combined with a fine grasp of the overarching structure of work ... to create a rich and suggestive series of reflections on Beckett's aesthetics.' - Robert Gordon, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London
