Just Play
Beckett's Theater
Published on 14. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-0-691-61602-5 (ISBN)
Description
The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-61602-5 (9780691616025)
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E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€56.99
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Person
Ruby Cohn
Content
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Photographs, pg. viii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*1 Introduction, pg. 1*2. At This Place, pg. 17*3. At This Moment in Time, pg. 34*4. All Mankind Is Us: Soliloquizers, pg. 58*5. All Mankind Is Us: Fictionalizers, pg. 76*6. The Churn of Stale Words: Repetitions, pg. 96*7. The Play That Wasn't Written: Human Wishes, pg. 143*8. The Play That Wasn't Staged: Eleutheria, pg. 163*9. The Play That Was Rewritten: Fin de partie, pg. 173*10. Some Beckett Theatricians, pg. 189*11. Jumping Beckett's Genres, pg. 207*12. Beckett Directs, pg. 230*Notes, pg. 281*Bibliography of Works Cited, pg. 289*APPENDIX A. Beckett as Playwright, pg. 293*APPENDIX B. Beckett as Stage Director, pg. 294*APPENDIX C. Human Wishes, pg. 295*Index, pg. 307