Samuel Beckett And The Theatre Of The Witness
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Author |
: Hannah Simpson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2022-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192677877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019267787X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness by : Hannah Simpson
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Author |
: Anna McMullan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134941124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134941129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theatre on Trial by : Anna McMullan
Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV space. Her application of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new and exciting ground.
Author |
: N. Bianchini |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2015-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137439864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137439866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett's Theatre in America by : N. Bianchini
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.
Author |
: Katharine Worth |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198187793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198187790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett's Theatre by : Katharine Worth
The critical discussion highlights the unique fusion on Beckett's stage of cosmic scenery and humorous individualism."--Jacket.
Author |
: Katherine Weiss |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2013-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408145586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408145588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plays of Samuel Beckett by : Katherine Weiss
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.
Author |
: Samuel Beckett |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 2012-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571300198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571300197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by : Samuel Beckett
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, 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 Traume, What Where.
Author |
: Anna McMullan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 020337598X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780203375983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Theatre on Trial by : Anna McMullan
Author |
: Khaled Besbes |
Publisher |
: Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781581129557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1581129556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre by : Khaled Besbes
Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and Beckett s theatre is one which engages a large spectrum of subjects and concerns that touch upon multiple aspects of human experience. The Beckettian dramatic text, as shall be demonstrated in this book, is a fertile ground for a semiotic investigation that is orchestrated by the profound insights of C. S. Peirce. As it applies semiotics to Beckett s theatre, this book seeks to preserve, communicate and throw into relief those universal values in the playwright s works which remain unchallenged despite every change and every revolution in human societies. What this book will hopefully contribute to the general canon of theatrical studies is its study of the Beckettian dramatic text not as a model of the absurd tradition, but rather as a cultural product whose writer's thinking can scarcely be dissociated from the cultural environment within which it took shape, and whose deciphering requires the use of cultural codes and sub-codes which will undergo detailed examination in the course of analysis, a study that we may so generically call a cultural semiotic study of Beckett.
Author |
: Samuel Beckett |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2010-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802198464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802198465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett by : Samuel Beckett
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
Author |
: Rosemary Pountney |
Publisher |
: Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015013926517 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theatre of Shadows by : Rosemary Pountney