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Sails of the herring fleet : essays on Beckett / Herbert Blau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blau, Herbert.
- Series:
- Theater--theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Dramatic works.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Dramatic production.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Authors, English.
- Drama.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to now-classic essays, the collection includes early program notes and two remarkable interviews -- one from Blau's experience directing "Waiting for Godot at San Quentin prison, and one from his last visit with Beckett, just before the playwright's death. Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington.
- Contents:
- 1 Who Is Godot? 21
- 2 In Memoriam 24
- 3 Notes from the Underground 26
- 4 On Directing Beckett: An Interview 56
- 5 The Bloody Show and the Eye of Prey 77
- 6 Barthes and Beckett: The Punctum, the Pensum, and the Dream of Love 94
- 7 The Oversight of Ceaseless Eyes 113
- 8 Quaquaquaqua: The Babel of Beckett 124
- 9 The Less Said 139
- 10 Remembering Beckett: An Interview 142
- 11 Astride of a Grave; or, the State of the Art 167
- 12 In Short: The Right Aggregate, the Grand Apnoea, and the Accusative of Inexistence 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472030019
- 0472111493
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.16561
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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