Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

ISBN-13: 9780415634205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 196 str.

Anna McMullan

Opis

Providing an overview of existing scholarship on Beckett and performance, this title will place Beckett's drama for theatre, film, television and radio in the context of highly contemporary discourses of subjectivity, embodiment, performance and technology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Dehiscent Bodies: From ‘Le Kid’ to Eleutheria 3: Intercorporeal Performances and the Hauntings of History in Waiting for Godot and Endgame 4: ‘This visible flesh’: Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days 5: Mimes and Fragments: Corporeal Laboratories 6: Radiophonic Embodiments 7: The Flesh of the Screen and the ‘eye of prey’: Beckett’s Film 8: Unhomely Semblances and the Televisual Matrix 9: The Late Theatre: Performing Traces of Embodiment 10: Mutated Bodies: Stage Performances of Beckett’s Late Prose Texts Conclusion: Re-embodying Beckett’s Drama in the Twenty-first Century Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Anna McMullan is Chair in Drama at Queen’s University Belfast.