Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theater

Portada
Oxford University Press, 1987 - 209 pàgines
Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays not only as texts but also as theater pieces. Discussing the technical and aesthetic demands that productions like Footfalls and Rockaby make on actor, director, and spectator, Brater clarifies the essential relationship between Beckett's achievement in the context of the breakdown of genre, performance poetry, and the electronic intrusion of the recorded voice as a new theatrical convention. In the course of his analysis Brater demonstrates how Beckett's late style in the theater both continues and clarifies the dramatic lyricism that is the hallmark of earlier works such as Endgame and Waiting for Godot.
 

Continguts

Genre Under Stress
3
The Eye in Not I
18
That Time on That Space
37
Footfalls to Infinity
52
Shades for Film and Video
74
Monologue Impromptu and Mask
111
Other Only Images
139
Play as Performance Poem
165
Notes
179
Bibliography
193
Index
202
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