This collection of five previously out-of-print titles examines Samuel Beckett’s works and their impact on the theatre, and on people who came into creative contact with his ideas. His plays are assessed, as are his works for film and television. A titan of original thinking, these books by leading Beckett scholars analyse how his creative vision was expressed and how it revolutionised not just the world of theatre but also of the wider world of the arts.
Author(s): Various Authors
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 1102
City: London
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Volume 1
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General Editor's Introduction
1: A Brief Chronology
2: The Plays
Waiting for Godot
All That Fall
Endgame
Act without Words I
Krapp's Last Tape
Rough for Theatre I and II
Embers
Act without Words II
Rough for Radio I and II
Happy Days
Words and Music
Play
Cascando
Film
Come and Go
Eh Joe
Not I
That Time
Footfalls
Ghost Trio
‘…but the clouds…’
A Piece of Monologue
Rockaby
Ohio Impromptu
Quad
Catastrophe
Nacht and Träume
What Where
3: Non-Dramatic Writing
a: Prose in Performance
b: Fiction
c: Other Works
4: The Writer on His work
5: A Select Bibliography
Full-Length Studies
Articles and Chapters in Books
Volume 2
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Illustrations
Foreword
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Chronology
1 Introduction
2 The One That Got Away: Eleuthéria
3 Bailing Out the Silence: Waiting for Godot
4 Son of Oedipus: Endgame
5 Love and Doom in an Irish Suburb: All That Fall
6 Death and the Maiden: Krapp's Last Tape
7 Hectoring Voices in the Head: Embers, Eh Joe, Words and Music, Cascando, Ghost Trio, . . . but the Clouds . . ., Rough for Radio
8 Blaze of Hellish Light: Happy Days
9 The Net Closes: Play
10 Into Action: Acts Without Words, Film, Come and Go, Breath
11 Last Ditch: Not I, That Time, Footfalls
12 Performance and Response
13 Still Struggling: Human Wishes, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Träume, What Where
Bibliographical Note
Index
Volume 3
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Contributors
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1 Introduction
2 The Satiric Shape of Watt
3 'The Labours of Poetical Excavation'
4 Assumption to Lessness: Beckett's Shorter Fiction
5 Innovation and Continuity in How It Is
6 The Dubious Consolations in Beckett's Fiction: Art, Love and Nature
7 Bilingual Playwright
8 Film and the Religion of Art
9 The Space and the Sound in Beckett's Theatre
Select List of Beckett's Principal Works
Select List of Critical Writings
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Volume 4
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Series Editor's Foreword
Editor's Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: Words and Music: Situating Beckett
Chapter 2: Samuel Beckett and the Arts of Time: Painting, Music, Narrative
Chapter 3: Beckett as Marsyas
Chapter 4: Beckett Music
Chapter 5: The Word Man and the Note Man: Morton Feldman and Beckett's Virtual Music
Chapter 6: Reflections on Beckett and Music, with a Case Study: Paul Rhys's Not I
Chapter 7: Skeptical Pictures in the Music of Company
Chapter 8: A Statistical Analysis of Beckett's Musical Metaphors
Chapter 9: Interview with Philip Glass
Part II
Chapter 10: Resonant Images: Beckett and German Expressionism
Chapter 11: Six Degrees of Separation: Beckett and the Livre d'Artiste
Chapter 12: Nor Do My Doodles More Sagaciously: Beckett Illustrating Watt
Chapter 13: The Becketts of Mabou Mines
Chapter 14: Interview with Maguy Marin
Part III
Chapter 15: The Silence That Is Not Silence: Acoustic Art in Samuel Beckett's Embers
Chapter 16: Working Wireless: Beckett's Radio Writing
Chapter 17: All That Fall and Radio Language
Chapter 18: Mediatating On: Beckett, Embers, and Radio Theory
Chapter 19: Unswamping a Backwater: On Samuel Beckett's Film
Chapter 20: Continued Perception: Chaos Theory, the Camera, and Samuel Beckett's Film and Television Work
Contributors
Volume 5
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1 Mimicking Mimesis
Play: Theatre on Trial
Catastrophe: The Body in Representation
What Where: Shades of Authority
2 Masquerades of Self
That Time: Between Frames
A Piece of Monologue: Beyond the Frame
3 This Sex which is not One
Not I: Staging the Feminine - From Excess to Absence
Come and Go: A Pattern of Shades
4 Refiguring Authority
Footfalls: Dreadfully Un-
Rockaby: Those Arms at Last
Ohio Impromptu: Rites of Passage
Conclusion: Beckett and Performance - Back to the Future
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Bibliography
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