On Beckett : essays and criticism / edited and with an introduction by S.E. Gontarski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gontarski, S. E., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (610 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Anthem Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

?On Beckett: Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize?winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century ? countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. ?On Beckett" brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; THE ESSENTIAL BECKETT: A PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; Works Cited; A BECKETT CHRONOLOGY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction CRRITICS AND CRRITICISM: "GETTING KNOWN"; Notes; PRELIMINARIES; BECKETT AND MERLIN; Notes; SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE VISUAL ARTS: THE EMBARRASSMENT OF ALLEGORY; Notes; WHEN IS THE END NOT THE END? THE IDEA OF FICTION IN BECKETT; II; III; IV; V; Notes; THE PAGE; MURPHY AND THE USES OF REPETITION; Recurring Passages; Cross-references; Repeated Action; Duality; Reiterated Allusions; Symmetry; Notes; WATT

A Novel of the Middle Years of ManThe Renunciations of Watt; The Utopia of Mr. Knott's House; The Religious Dimension; The Fly in the Ointment of Microcosmos; Notes; MERCIER AND CAMIER: NARRATION, DANTE, AND THE COUPLE; Notes; MOLLOY'S SILENCE; Notes; WHERE NOW? WHO NOW?; Notes; THE VOICE AND ITS WORDS: HOW IT IS; 1; 2; Notes; THE UNNAMABLE'S FIRST VOICE?; Notes; BETWEEN VERSE AND PROSE: BECKETT AND THE NEW POETRY; Notes; WORSTWARD HO; Note; THE STAGE; MACGOWRAN ON BECKETT; BLIN ON BECKETT; WORKING WITH BECKETT; NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: WAITING FOR GODOT AND ENDGAME; Notes

BECKETT DIRECTS GODOTFriday 27 December 1974; Saturday 28 December 1974; Beckett Interprets Lines for the Actors; Beckett in Dialogue with Actors; The Regie Book; Tuesday 18 January 1975; Actors Tease Beckett; BECKETT DIRECTS: ENDGAME AND KRAPP'S LAST TAPE; Notes; LITERARY ALLUSIONS IN HAPPY DAYS; Notes; COUNTERPOINT, ABSENCE, AND THE MEDIUM IN BECKETT'S NOT I; Notes; REHEARSAL NOTES FOR THE GERMAN PREMIERE OF BECKETT'S THAT TIME AND FOOTFALLS; FOOTFALLS; Notes; SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE ART OF RADIO; Notes; LIGHT, SOUND, MOVEMENT, AND ACTION IN BECKETT'S ROCKABY; Notes

BECKETT'S OHIO IMPROMPTU: A VIEW FROM THE ISLE OF SWANSNotes; QUAD AND CATASTROPHE; CODA; BURROUGHS WITH BECKETT IN BERLIN; Dinner with Susan Sontag and Maurice Girodias: New York 1980; Dinner with Fred Jordan: New York 1980; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 24, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78308-158-9