Performing embodiment in Samuel Beckett's drama / Anna McMullan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMullan, Anna, 1957-

Contributor:

Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 12.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Dramatic works.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Human body in literature.

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 186 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.

Summary:

Fifty years after the premiere of Waiting for Godot (1953), Samuel Beckett has become a global cultural icon. This book will be the first detailed study of Becketts staging of the body in his drama for theatre, film, television and radio.Providing an overview of existing scholarship on Beckett and performance, this book will place Becketts drama for theatre, film, television and radio in the context of highly contemporary discourses of subjectivity, embodiment, performance and technology.

Contents:

Introduction

Dehiscent bodies : from "Le Kid" to Eleutheria

Intercorporeal performances and the hauntings of history in Waiting for Godot and Endgame

"This visible flesh" : Krapp's Last tape and Happy days

Mimes and fragments : corporeal laboratories

Radiophonic embodiments

The flesh of the screen and the "eye of prey" : Beckett's Film

Unhomely semblances and the televisual matrix

The late theatre : performing traces of embodiment

Mutated bodies : stage performances of Beckett's late prose texts

Conclusion : re-embodying Beckett's drama in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

9780415385985

0415385989

OCLC:

149007741

Publisher Number:

99937874059

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