Shakespeare and Beckett : restless echoes / Claudia Olk, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olk, Claudia, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. This book addresses the vast intertextual network between the works of both writers and explores the resonant correspondences between them. It analyses where and how these resonances manifest themselves in their aesthetics, theatre, language and form. It traces convergences and inversions across both œuvres that resound beyond their conditions of production and possibility. Uncovering hitherto unexplored relations between the texts of an early modern and a late modern author, this study seeks to offer fresh readings of single passages and entire works, but it will also describe productive tensions and creative incongruences between them"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare and Beckett on the Edges

2. Molecular Shakespeare - Beckett Reading Shakespeare through Joyce

3. `Some remains': Beckettian and Shakespearean Echoes

4. Purgatory and Pause - Shakespeare, Dante and the Lobster

5. `[It is] winter/Without journey' - Still Lifes in Beckett and Shakespeare

6. Endgames

7. Theatres of Sleep.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Olk, Claudia. Shakespeare and Beckett

ISBN:

9781316514030

131651403X

9781009077200

1009077201

OCLC:

1334727005