Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness. Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama, Hardback - ***

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issue...

Reducere. The complete, critically acclaimed Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of l...

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941–1956 - Samuel Beckett

'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated t...

This volume completes the publication of this series of notebooks, the plays in question being Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Footfalls, That Time and ...

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Profess...

The Imperial War Museum open its world-famous archives to celebrate the letters, diaries and spoken words of those who witnessed the key events of ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 23Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Mar Garre G...

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected P...

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed t...

Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author'...

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-...

Through an examination of six plays, this book presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule.Pub...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Joshua (Cardiff University, UK) PowellNumber of pages: 224Collection: Historicizing ModernismPubl...

Based on conversations with directors and actors who knew her, this book is a study of the British post-war dramatist, Sarah Kane. It covers all he...

As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles...

Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and i...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 20Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entert...

DescriptionHow has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it loo...

Provides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on t...

Examines Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. This title juxtaposes an analysis of Qu...

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett that covers key topics including Beckett's treatment of human emotion, the importan...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

Complete with rare photographs, diagrams and glossary, follow author James Stejskal as he covers the establishment of these agencies and their inte...

Reducere. The purpose of a high school drama or theatre arts program is to introduce students to as many aspects of drama as possible, to allow them to exper...

DescriptionHow do you develop the craft and skills of stage management for today's theatre industry? And how can these same skills be applied in a ...

Reducere. After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust ...

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and so...

DescriptionThe Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present from a scenogra...

Publisher: ABC-CLIOAuthor(s): Robert LandyNumber of pages: 282Publication date: 1982Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona thro...

Reducere. Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Dr. Eran LermanNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 27Cover type: HardbackR...

'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks T...

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxie...

Reducere. DescriptionWHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of ...

A seminal piece of Royal Marines Commando history, this 1950s doctrine summing up the lessons of World War II is published for the first time.Illus...

Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author'...

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DescriptionThe modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent human life. While utility and am...

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His ...

Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and m...

Reducere. 'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural...

This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in pos...

Reducere. 'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest i...

Reducere. Collected Poems in English and French, Paperback