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Author | : Hannah Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019267787X |
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Author | : Hannah Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : French drama |
ISBN | : 0192863266 |
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Author | : N. Bianchini |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137439866 |
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A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Author | : Anna McMullan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134941129 |
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Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV space. Her application of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new and exciting ground.
Author | : Katharine Worth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Eliopulos |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111342441 |
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Author | : Katherine Weiss |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408145588 |
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Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work. Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.
Author | : Jennifer M. Jeffers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136761470 |
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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : N. Bianchini |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349683956 |
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A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Author | : Rosemary Pountney |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
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