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Just play : Beckett's theater / by Ruby Cohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohn, Ruby, author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton Legacy Library ; 853
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Stage history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- THROUGH VIEWS
- 2. At This Place
- 3. At This Moment in Time
- 4. All Mankind Is Us: Soliloquizers
- 5. All Mankind Is Us: Fictionalizers
- 6. The Churn of Stale Words: Repetitions
- SINGULARS
- 7. The Play That Wasn't Written: Human Wishes
- 8. The Play That Wasn't Staged: Eleuthéria
- 9. The Play That Was Rewritten: Fin de partie
- PERFORMANCE
- 10. Some Beckett Theatricians
- 11. Jumping Beckett's Genres
- 12. Beckett Directs
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A. Beckett as Playwright
- APPENDIX B. Beckett as Stage Director
- APPENDIX C. Human Wishes
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691643366
- 0691643369
- 9781400853601
- 1400853605
- 9780691616025
- 0691616027
- OCLC:
- 884013665
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