Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521464963
A leading Beckett scholar and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett, offers a coherent critical account of Beckett's earliest years.
Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,17 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 : 128 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198822
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 : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802118219
In honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, this bilingual edition of "Waiting for Godot" features side-by-side text in French and English so readers can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 27,3 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 : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 141033502X
Author : Lawrence Graver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521549387
This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. He reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation.
Author : Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,57 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.
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Frederick Busi
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813131160
The Sopranos is recognized as the most successful cable series in the history of television. The Washington Post has called the popular series, winner of twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes, Òthe television landmark that leaves other landmarks in the dust.Ó In every aspectÑnarrative structure, visual artistry, writing, intertextuality, ensemble acting, controversial themes, dark humor, and unflinching examinations of American lifeÑThe Sopranos has had few equals. Offering a definitive final assessment of the series, The Essential Sopranos Reader aims to comprehensively examine the showÕs themes and enduring cultural significance. Gender and ethnicity, the role of dreams, the rebirth of HBO, the seriesÕ controversial finale, and other topics come under scrutiny in this highly accessible, engaging collection. The book concludes with an interview with Dominic Chianese, who played Uncle Junior in all six seasons of the show.
