Beckett : a study of his plays / by John Fletcher and John Spurling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, John, 1937-

Contributor:

Spurling, John, 1936-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Dramabook

A Dramabook.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Beckett, Samuel.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

152 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[lst American edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1972]

Contents:

Introduction

The one that got away: Eleuthéria

Bailing out the silence: Waiting for Godot

Son of Oedipus: Endgame

Love and doom in an Irish suburb: All that Fall

Death and the maiden: Krapp's Last Tape

Hectoring voices in the head: Embers, Eh Joe, Words and Music, Cascando

Blaze of hellish light: Happy Days

The net closes: Play

Into action: Acts without Words, Film, Come and Go, Breath

Performance and response.

Notes:

"First American edition 1972."

"We have composed this essay (which stresses throughout Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre) in close collaboration. John Fletcher wrote the Chronology, Chapters 3, 5, 7, 8 and 11, and John Spurling the rest."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has article on Samuel Beckett by Tom Bishop from Saturday Review of November 15, 1969 laid in.

ISBN:

0809028557

0809006502

OCLC:

552276