Performing embodiment in Samuel Beckett's drama /
McMullan, Anna,1957-
New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon. : Routledge,
2010.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Dehiscent bodies : from "Le Kid" to Eleutheria -- Intercorporeal performances and the hauntings of history in Waiting for Godot and Endgame -- "This visible flesh" : Krapp's Last tape and Happy days -- Mimes and fragments : corporeal laboratories -- Radiophonic embodiments -- The flesh of the screen and the "eye of prey" : Beckett's Film -- Unhomely semblances and the televisual matrix -- The late theatre : performing traces of embodiment -- Mutated bodies : stage performances of Beckett's late prose texts -- Conclusion : re-embodying Beckett's drama in the twenty-first century.
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.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Human body in literature.