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Languages : en
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Happy Days, Oh Les Beaux Jours
Author: Happy Days Oh Les Beaux Jours
Author: Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett--humanistic Perspectives
Author: Ohio State University. College of HumanitiesPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814203345
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Happy Days
Author: Samuel BeckettPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802144403
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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In Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, Happy Days offers only two characters: Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty. In the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, but still has the use of her arms and few earthly possessions—toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, small mirror, revolver, handkerchief, spectacles; in the second act she is embedded up to her neck and can move only her eyes. Willie lives and moves—on all fours—behind the mound, appearing intermittently and replying only occasionally into Winnie’s long monologue, but the knowledge of his presence is a source of comfort and inspiration to her, and doubtless the prerequisite for all her “happy days.”
Oh Les Beaux Jours
Author: Samuel BeckettThe Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author: Charles A. CarpenterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144118421X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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Sur la génétique textuelle
Author: D. G. BevanPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051831689
Category : Authors, French
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
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Beckett's Laboratory
Author: Corey WakelingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350153133
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice. Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe. Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.
Figures of Desire
Author: Linda WilliamsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078963
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
Author: Brian NelsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.