Theatre on Trial Samuel Beckett's Later Drama Routledge Library Editions: Beckett Series
Auteur : McMullan Anna
This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett?s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance. Recent work in the world of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at performance practice. McMullan argues that, while contemporary theory can deepen our understanding of Beckett?s dramatic practice, his drama places performance in the context of a metaphysical history and a metatheatrical tradition, thereby confronting and provoking some of the central debates in performance studies? engagement with critical theory.
1. Mimicking Mimesis 1.1. Play: Theatre on Trial 1.2. Catastrophe: The Body in Representation 1.3. What Where: Shades of Authority 2. Masquerades of Self 2.1. That Time: Between Frames 2.2. A Piece of Monologue: Beyond the Frame 3. This Sex Which Is Not One 3.1. Not I: Staging the Feminine – From Excess to Absence 3.2. Come and Go: A Pattern of Shades 4. Refiguring Authority 4.1. Footfalls: Dreadfully Un- 4.2. Rockaby: Those Arms At Last 4.3. Ohio Impromptu: Rites of Passage
Date de parution : 11-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Theatre on Trial :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; Existentialism; Da Game; Irish playwrights; Ohio Impromptu; Modernist plays; Vice Versa; Modernist theatre; Peter Gidal; Theatre staging; Ghost Trio; Performance theory; Spotlit Image; Critical theory; Beckett’s Work; Metatheatrical tradition; FLO; Beckett’s theatre; Beckett’s Plays; Stage Image; Stage Space; Rip Word; Audience Stage Relationship; Protagonist’s Birth; Voice’s Monologue; James Knowlson; Phallogocentric Language; Unified Image; Protagonist’s Parents; Radio II; Human Suffering; Dear Face; Faint Light; Beckett’s Late