The Plays of Samuel Beckett [Hardcover]

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 worksWaiting 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.

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 Tr??ume
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

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