Samuel Beckett A Casebook Casebooks on Modern Dramatists Series

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Beckett scholars who did not have access to the author. This text demarcates the line between the critical work produced when Beckett was alive, and the critical work produced within ten years of the author's death. This collection is distinctive, too, because the text offers a variety of critical perspectives which engage and problematize Beckett's dramatic canon. From Deleuzean rhizomatics to New Historicism to the crucial question of gender-each reading re-positions Beckett's plays and forces us to rethink our standard interpretations of Beckett's drama.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jennifer M. Jeffers; Chapter 2 Whispers Out of Time, Helen Regueiro Elam; Chapter 3 “Speak no more”, Jonathan Boulter; Chapter 4 “A place without an occupant”, Jennifer M. Jeffers; Chapter 5 Voices out of the Air, Stephen Dilks; Chapter 6 Vain Reasonings, Derval Tubridy; Chapter 7 Performing Vision(s), Anna McMullan; Chapter 8 “Sadism Demands a Story”, Karen Laughlin; Chapter 9 Bodily Functions, Christine Jones; Chapter 10 Empire of Light, William E. Gruber; Chapter 11 Exhausted Cameras—Beckett in the TV-Zoo, Eckart Voigts-Virchow;

Jennifer M. Jeffers