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Samuel Beckett - Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration - 9780472116645 - V9780472116645
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Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration

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Description for Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration Hardcover. Placing playwright Samuel Beckett's work in important historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts, this book contains essays that demonstrate the playwright's impact on theater, performance, and visual arts during the latter half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): McMullan, Anna; Wilmer, S. E. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

The essays in this collection were originally delivered as part of the esteemed lecture series at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett's alma mater. The eminent contributors shed new light on Beckett's enigmatic theater, taking up an engaging array of topics. Included are new perspectives on Beckett's use of language and silence, on his attitudes toward the body, on those who influenced him and on those he has influenced (including Suzan-Lori Parks and Femi Osofisan), and on Beckett and the art of self-collaboration. Each contributor places the playwright into a network of genealogies and legacies and his work into important historical, ... Read more

Anna McMullan is Chair of Drama Studies at Queens University Belfast and author of Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama.

S. E. Wilmer is Associate Professor of Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin and author of Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities.

Illustration: Samuel Beckett at the rehearsal of Waiting for Godot. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.

A volume in the series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Michigan Press Michigan
Condition
New
Series
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472116645
SKU
V9780472116645
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Ref
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About Samuel Beckett
Anna McMullan is Chair of Drama Studies at Queens University Belfast and author of Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama. S. E. Wilmer is Associate Professor of Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin and author of Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities.

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