1st Edition

Theatre on Trial Samuel Beckett's Later Drama

By Anna McMullan Copyright 1993
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Mimicking Mimesis  1.1. Play: Theatre on Trial  1.2. Catastrophe: The Body in Representation  1.3. What Where: Shades of Authority  2. Masquerades of Self  2.1. That Time: Between Frames  2.2. A Piece of Monologue: Beyond the Frame  3. This Sex Which Is Not One  3.1. Not I: Staging the Feminine – From Excess to Absence  3.2. Come and Go: A Pattern of Shades  4. Refiguring Authority  4.1. Footfalls: Dreadfully Un-  4.2. Rockaby: Those Arms At Last  4.3. Ohio Impromptu: Rites of Passage

Biography

Anna McMullan