Theatre on Trial - Samuel Beckett''s Later Drama

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance.

Sommario

1. Mimicking Mimesis 1.1. Play: Theatre on Trial 1.2. Catastrophe: The Body in Representation 1.3. What Where: Shades of Authority 2. Masquerades of Self 2.1. That Time: Between Frames 2.2. A Piece of Monologue: Beyond the Frame 3. This Sex Which Is Not One 3.1. Not I: Staging the Feminine – From Excess to Absence 3.2. Come and Go: A Pattern of Shades 4. Refiguring Authority 4.1. Footfalls: Dreadfully Un- 4.2. Rockaby: Those Arms At Last 4.3. Ohio Impromptu: Rites of Passage

Info autore

Anna McMullan

Riassunto

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna McMullan, McMullan Anna
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367747527
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74752-7
• Pagine: 164
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Beckett
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; Narrativa > Fumetti, cartoni, humour, satira; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Biography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000