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Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538928
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett by : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr

Download or read book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett written by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.

The Complete Dramatic Works

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571229154
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dramatic Works written by Samuel Beckett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 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.

Beckett’s Late Stage

Author : Rhys Tranter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838210352
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Beckett’s Late Stage written by Rhys Tranter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett’s prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett’s live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett’s Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144118421X
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:

Theatre on Trial

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134941129
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 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 2003-09-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521594295
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Beckett: Waiting for Godot written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradby explores the impact of the play and its influence on acting, directing, design, and the role of theatre in society. Bradby begins with an analysis of the play and its historical context. After discussing the first productions in France, Britain and America, he examines subsequent productions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, China and Japan. The book assesses interpretations by actors such as Bert Lahr, David Warrilow, Georges Wilson, Barry McGovern and Ben Kingsley, and directors Roger Blin, Susan Sontag, Sir Peter Hall, Luc Bondy, Yukio Ninagawa and Beckett himself. It also contains an extensive production chronology, bibliography and illustrations from major productions.

Ironic Samuel Beckett

Author : Pol Popovic Karic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ironic Samuel Beckett written by Pol Popovic Karic and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony can provide a means to communication, catharsis, and freedom that a person needs in order to survive in a world of permanent chaos and oppression. Ironic Samuel Beckett offers an unorthodox look at Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days from the perspective of irony. This analysis questions the notion the Beckett's "theater of the absurd" is essentially circular or based on nothingness, and invites the reader to reconsider established notions about Beckett and his work.

The Collected Shorter Plays

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802144381
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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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 228 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.

After the Blast

Author : Zoe Kazan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822238519
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book After the Blast written by Zoe Kazan and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations ago, humans retreated deep underground after an environmental disaster ruined the world above. Nature is now simulated through brain-implanted chips, and fertility is regulated to keep the surviving population in balance. Anna and Oliver want to have a baby, and their options are running out.

Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television

Author : G. Herren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137109084
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television written by G. Herren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.

Beckett, Lacan and the Voice

Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838208196
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Beckett, Lacan and the Voice by : Llewellyn Brown

Download or read book Beckett, Lacan and the Voice written by Llewellyn Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice's multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject's vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett's work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation

Beckett's Art of Salvage

Author : Julie Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739066
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Beckett's Art of Salvage written by Julie Bates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of only fourteen objects - well-worn not only where they appear within his works but also in terms of their recurrence throughout his creative corpus. In this volume, Bates offers a striking reappraisal of Beckett's writing, with a focus on the changing functions and impact of this set of objects, and charts, chronologically and across media, the pattern of Beckett's distinctive authorial procedure. The volume's identification of the creative praxis that emerges as an 'art of salvage' offers an integrated way of understanding Beckett's writing, opens up new approaches to his work, and offers a fresh assessment of his importance and relevance today.

Tragic Drama and the Family

Author : Bennett Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300041323
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Drama and the Family written by Bennett Simon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Bennett Simon provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.

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.

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213696
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism written by Wimbush Andy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Frescoes of the Skull

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frescoes of the Skull written by James Knowlson and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1980 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Filming Beckett's Television Plays

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752340
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Filming Beckett's Television Plays written by Sidney Homan and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If in the theater the rehearsal process is a way of "discovering" the play, of suggesting alternative readings, would the same hold true if the critic encountered works like Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, or Quad by going through the actual process of filming and then editing them?