Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Author: Anna McMullan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000155374

The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett’s drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett’s re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

Seven Plays By Sean O'casey

Seven Plays By Sean O'casey
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 585
Release: 1985-10-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1349179779

This edition of Sean O'Casey's major plays is designed specifically for students and teachers. The plays are supported by a full introduction, covering O'Casey's career and critical responses to the plays, full notes and a bibliography.

Sean O’Casey

Sean O’Casey
Author: Brooks Atkinson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1982-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349056677

Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey
Author: Christopher Murray
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2004-11-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0773586156

Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Se?O'Casey: Writer at Work takes a fresh look at the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival.