Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521604512
A leading Beckett scholar and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett, offers a coherent critical account of Beckett's earliest years.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802198821
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.” The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521594295
Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradby explores the impact of the play and its influence on acting, directing, design, and the role of theatre in society. Bradby begins with an analysis of the play and its historical context. After discussing the first productions in France, Britain and America, he examines subsequent productions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, China and Japan. The book assesses interpretations by actors such as Bert Lahr, David Warrilow, Georges Wilson, Barry McGovern and Ben Kingsley, and directors Roger Blin, Susan Sontag, Sir Peter Hall, Luc Bondy, Yukio Ninagawa and Beckett himself. It also contains an extensive production chronology, bibliography and illustrations from major productions.
Author : Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1039010881
From the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait: a sweeping family drama where a father's disappearance forces three adult siblings to come together and confront what they really know about their past. London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan's newly-retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, the three Riordan children are converging on their childhood home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, with two stepdaughters who despise her and an ugly secret that has driven a wedge between her and the little sister she once adored; and Aoife (pronounced EE-fah), the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal her illiteracy. As the siblings track down clues to their father's disappearance, they also navigate rocky pasts and long-held secrets. Their search ultimately brings them to their ancestral village in Ireland, where the truth of their family's past is revealed. Wise, lyrical, instantly engrossing, Instructions for a Heatwave is a richly satisfying page-turner from a writer of exceptional intelligence and grace.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802150660
This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080219835X
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312420079
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.
Author : Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1441156100
"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Contemporary Theatre Review Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text -it is also one of the most significant western cultural landmarks of the twentieth century. Originally written in French, the play first amazed and appalled Parisian theatre-goers and critics before receiving a harshly dismissive initial critical response in Britain in 1955. Its influence since then on the international stage has been significant, impacting on generations of actors, directors and audiences.
Author : William Hutchings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313068682
No modern play in the western dramatic tradition has provoked as much controversy or generated as much diversity of opinion as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Since its initial production in 1953, it has revolutionized the stage through its existentialism and apparent rejection of plot. This book is a valuable introduction to the play. It begins with a summary of the play and its origins and editions. It then explores the play's meaning and the historical and intellectual contexts informing Beckett's work. The book then examines Beckett's dramatic art and gives full coverage of the play's performance history. A bibliographical essay surveys the most important critical studies.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471854
Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.
