Hannah Simpson (Rosemary Rosemary Pountney Junior Research Fellow

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness

Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780192863263
• ISBN-10: 0192863266
• Artikelnr.: 64176494

Autorenporträt

Hannah Simpson is the Rosemary Pountney Junior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. She is also the Theatre Review Editor at The Beckett Circle.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: 'PAIN PAIN PAIN': Samuel Beckett
World War II
and Francophone Theatre * 1: The Indifferent Spectator: Eleutheria and Albert Camus * 2: Cruelty
Contagion
and Comedy: Waiting for Godot * 3: The Aesthetic of the Anaesthetic: Endgame and Pablo Picasso * 4: Transcending Pain
Theatricalising Pain: Happy Days
Play
and Eugène Ionesco * 5: Testimony and Trauma: Not I and Marguerite Duras's L'Amante anglaise * Conclusion: Breath: Distance
Intimacy
and the Empathic