Performing embodiment in Samuel Beckett's drama
By: Anna McMullan.
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415385985
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- Dramatic works; Human body in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dehiscent bodies : from Le Kid to Eleutheria; title: Intercorporeal performances and the hauntings of history in Waiting for Godot and Endgame; title: This visible flesh : Krapp's last tape and Happy days; title: Mimes and fragments : corporeal laboratories; title: Radiophonic embodiments; title: The flesh of the screen and the "eye of prey" : Beckett's film; title: Unhomely semblances and the televisual matrix; title: The late theatre : performing traces of embodiment; title: Mutated bodies : stage performances of Beckett's late prose texts; title: Conclusion : re-embodying Beckett's drama in the twenty-first century.