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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155374
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama written by Anna McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett’s drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett’s re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

A Theatre of Affect

Author : Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838210681
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Theatre of Affect written by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining phenomenological analysis and affect theory, this book takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckett's drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. If the post-human innovation up until the present has worked to decentre the 'human', by rendering notions of thinking, experience, and affect impersonal and by developing new models of expression and communication, then this innovation seems to be already underway in Beckett's theatre of affect where the assault against language is made possible through the thematising of the body as a mode of encountering presence. The corporeal turn in Beckett's drama therefore has far-reaching implications for the production of meaning in his work.

Beckett in Performance

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423793
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Beckett in Performance written by Jonathan Kalb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

Theatre on Trial

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378497
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Theatre on Trial written by Anna McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance. Recent work in the world of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at performance practice. McMullan argues that, while contemporary theory can deepen our understanding of Beckett’s dramatic practice, his drama places performance in the context of a metaphysical history and a metatheatrical tradition, thereby confronting and provoking some of the central debates in performance studies’ engagement with critical theory.

Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama

Author : Shimon Levy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802071628
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama written by Shimon Levy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Samuel Beckett's drama, using the criteria that ensue from the works themselves, with particular attention given to the relationship between the medium and the message. This fully revised second edition includes chapters on the radioplays and film and television scripts.

Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett

Author : Katherine H. Burkman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838632994
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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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.

Say it

Author : Sarah West
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042030787
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Say it written by Sarah West and published by Brill Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to Samuel Beckett¿s literature is a wilful voice which insists on speaking and being heard. Beckett described it as ¿a truly exterior voice¿, and in the plays he separates voice from the body and turns it into an audible character. Previous critical studies have explored the enigma of this voice, its identity, source and location, but little attention has been given to the voice as protagonist. This volume traces the genesis of the performative voice in the early prose and charts its trajectory throughout the dramatic oeuvre in a readable narrative which generates fresh insights into some of Beckett¿s most remarkable and impenetrable plays. It examines the use of embodied and acousmatic ¿ `out of body¿ ¿ voices in the different media of theatre, radio and television; the treatment of voice in relation to music, image and movement; and the `shifting threshold¿ between the written and spoken word. The analysis comprises a detailed study of dramatic speech and technical aspects of sound reproduction, making it relevant for all scholars and students with an interest in textual and performance issues in Beckett¿s drama.

Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474240577
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study to focus on the staging of Samuel Beckett's drama in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Beckett's relationship with his native land was a complex one, but the importance of his drama as a creative force both historically and in contemporary practice in Ireland and Northern Ireland cannot be underestimated. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and re-examining familiar narratives, this volume traces the history of Beckett's drama at Dublin's Abbey and Gate Theatres as well as bringing to light unexamined and little-known productions such as those performed in the Irish language, Druid Theatre Company's productions, and those of Dublin's Focus Theatre. Leading scholars in Beckett studies and in Irish drama, including Anna McMullan and Anthony Roche, and renowned interpreters of Beckett's dramatic work such as Barry McGovern, explore Beckett's drama within the context of Irish creative theatrical practice and heritage, and analyse its legacies. As with its companion volume, Staging Beckett in Great Britain, production analyses are underpinned by a consideration of the political, economic and cultural contexts. Readers are invited to experience Beckett's drama as resonating in new ways, through theatre practice, against the complex and connected histories of Ireland, north and south.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Jennifer M. Jeffers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136761462
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Jennifer M. Jeffers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Beckett scholars who did not have access to the author. This text demarcates the line between the critical work produced when Beckett was alive, and the critical work produced within ten years of the author's death. This collection is distinctive, too, because the text offers a variety of critical perspectives which engage and problematize Beckett's dramatic canon. From Deleuzean rhizomatics to New Historicism to the crucial question of gender-each reading re-positions Beckett's plays and forces us to rethink our standard interpretations of Beckett's drama.

Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031041327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance written by Hannah Simpson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new theorising of Beckett’s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Beckett’s plays, staged in the UK and US, and brings the rich fields of Beckett studies and disability studies into mutually illuminating conversation. Pairing original interviews with the actors and directors involved in these productions alongside critical analysis underpinned by recent disability and performance theory, this book explores how these productions emphasise or rework previously undetected indicators of disability in Beckett’s work. More broadly, it reveals how Beckett’s theatre compulsively interrogates alternative embodiments, unexpected forms of agency, and the extraordinary social interdependency of the human body.

The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571300197
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Experimental Beckett

Author : Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108854966
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Beckett written by Nicholas E. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Beckett's own tendencies toward fluidity of genre, iteration/repetition, and collaboration – modes that also define the 'experimental' – allow for greater openness than is often assumed. Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial character of contemporary Beckettian practice. The experimentation of current practitioners challenges a discourse based on historical controversies, exposing a still-expanding terrain for Beckett in performance.

Transdisciplinary Beckett

Author : Lucy Jeffery
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215842
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Transdisciplinary Beckett written by Lucy Jeffery and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process. Investigating specific instances where Beckett’s writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Beckett’s transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Beckett’s stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written. With new examples from Beckett’s notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took place in the visual arts and in musical composition influenced Beckett and, in turn, were influenced by him. Transdisciplinary Beckett situates Beckett as a key figure not just in the literary marketplace but also in the fields of music, art, and broadcasting.

The Plays of Samuel Beckett

Author : Katherine Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408145588
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Katherine Weiss and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beckett's Theaters

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750643
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Theaters written by Sidney Homan and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work focuses on the practical and philosophic sides of performance, set within the context of Beckett's own aesthetic theory, his fiction and poetry, as well as a history of the critical and scholarly studies of his work. Winner of the Bucknell University Press Award.

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144117852X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

Beckett's Breath

Author : Goudouna Sozita Goudouna
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474421660
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Breath written by Goudouna Sozita Goudouna and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism. Key FeaturesExamines Beckett's ultimate venture to define the borders between a theatrical performance and purely visual representationJuxtaposes Beckett's Breath with breath-related artworks by prominent visual artists who investigate the far-reaching potential of the representation of respiration by challenging modernist essentialismThe focus on this primary human physiological function and its relation to arts and culture is highly pertinent to studies of human performance, the nature of embodiment and its relation to cultural expressionFacilitates new intermedial discourses around the nature and aesthetic possibilities of breath, the minimum condition of existence, at the interface between the visual arts and performance practices and their relation to questions of spectacle, objecthood and materiality