1st Edition

Beckett the Playwright

By John Fletcher, John Spurling Copyright 1985
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The One That Got Away: Eleuthéria  3. Bailing Out the Silence: Waiting for Godot  4. Son of Oedipus: Endgame  5. Love and Doom in an Irish Suburb: All That Fall  6. Death and the Maiden: Krapp’s Last Tape  7. Hectoring Voices in the Head: Embers, Eh Joe, Words and Music, Cascando, Ghost Trio, … but the clouds…, Rough for Radio  8. Blaze of Hellish Light: Happy Days  9. The Net Closes: Play  10. Into Action: Acts Without Words, Film, Come and Go, Breath  11. Last Ditch: Not I, That Time, Footfalls  12. Performance and Response  13. Still Struggling: Human Wishes, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Träume, What Where

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John Fletcher and John Spurling