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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Brater studies the uniqueness of many of the opening lines from Beckett's plays, explores their portent, and probes the non-linear aspects of the plays.] I Although Beckett...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Gontarski appraises Beckett's reworking of his earlier plays and the changes they have undergone, paying particular attention to Play.] In the early 1960s the nature of Samuel...
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From: Literature and the Grotesque[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Catanzaro argues that the dismembered bodies of couples in Beckett's works are metaphors for the failure of communication in relationships.] Beckett's plays of the late 1950's...
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From: Comparative Drama[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Tassi suggests options for staging Shakespearian plays in light of Beckett's absurdist theater.] Comparisons of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett have been popular...
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From: Yale French Studies[(essay date spring-summer 1962) In the following essay, Cohn studies the layers of reality and unreality in Beckett's plays and discusses the characters' awareness of the symbiotic nature of these (un)realities.]...
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From: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Malkin discusses Beckett's dramatic presentation of memory in Krapp's Last Tape and Not I.] Krapp's Last Tape (1958) embodies memory and the dislocations of time; in...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date fall 1999) In the following essay, Gontarski finds Play to be a crucial element in the formation of Beckett's theatrical sensibility.] To date none of the commonly available English texts for Samuel...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1997) In the following essay, Kumar notes that chess is the underlying metaphor in Beckett's Endgame and explains the characters' inability to move, need for protection, and use of pawns as metaphors...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1997) In the following essay, Kumar argues that the chess symbolism in Endgame serves as a unifying element for the play as well as a metaphor for existential uncertainty and despair.] Samuel...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date winter 1998) In the following essay, Thomas studies Happy Days for evidence of a subtext influenced by D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.] The importance of Beckett's use of literary...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Kennedy argues that although Beckett's plays have postmodernist elements, they are fundamentally different from true postmodern works.] Our general topic (at the Strasbourg...
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From: Journal of Beckett Studies[(essay date fall 2000/spring 2001) In the following essay, Lawley concentrates on the roles that voice, silence, movement, and stillness play in illuminating defensive mechanisms of human existence in That Time.]...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite their generic and formal differences, Samuel Beckett's 1953 novel The Unnamable and 1961 play Happy Days register complementary concerns toward the relationship between embodiment and communication. Both texts...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 75, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn Happy Days Samuel Beckett's bird-like protagonist, Winnie, resists readings by those who, like Richard Gilman, desire to situate Beckett's stage images outside of history. (1) While the set of Happy Days is very much...
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIssues discussed concern the influence of D.H. Lawrences's novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover,' on Samuel Beckett's play, 'Happy Days.' Similarities among the female characters in both the works are discussed, along with the...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5786)Samuel Beckett NOT I / FOOTFALLS/ ROCKABY Duchess Theatre HAPPY DAYS Young Vic Theatre Does Samuel Beckett tell stories? His characters, in plays and novels, certainly do--though often with extreme difficulty....
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5727)The winter of 1925 in Dublin was a rather cheerless one. At least that is the picture the papers give: workers' strikes, a general depression in trade and widespread unemployment. The Irish Times forecast a particularly...
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From:Nordic Journal of English Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDo we have the liberty to do what we want to with Beckett's texts? Perhaps the answer is yes--the text, after all, will still be there in its original glory after all its different productions are long forgotten....
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSamuel Beckett's 1961 play 'Happy Days' has a reference to Dr Samuel Johnson whom Beckett greatly admired which is only clear when the French translation is compared to the English version. Beckett originally intended to...
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From:British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Lydia Rainford Introduction SAMUEL BARCLAY BECKETT was born at Cooldrinagh in Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland on Good Friday, 13 April 1906. He was the second-born of two sons of Protestant, middle-class parents, his...