Samuel Beckett's Endgame / edited by Mark S. Byron.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Byron, Mark S.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Notes: A collection of essays.

This collection of essays – the first volume in the Dialogue series – brings together new and experienced scholars to present innovative critical approaches to Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame . These essays broach a broad range of topics, many of which are inherently controversial and have generated significant levels of debate in the past. Critical readings of the play in relation to music, metaphysics, intertextuality, and time are counterpointed by essays that consider the nature of performance, the history of the theater and the music hall, Beckett’s attitudes to directing his play, and his responses to other directors. This collection will be of special interest to Beckett scholars, to students of literature and drama, and to drama theorists and practitioners.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- ‘Hard-to-hear Music in Endgame’ / Thomas Mansell -- Re-Evaluating Endgame / Colin Duckworth -- Memory and Its Devices in Endgame / Jane E. Gatewood -- Paul Ricoeur and Watching Endgame / Michael Guest -- Endgame’s Remainders / Russell Smith -- Bare interiors, chicken wire cages and subway stations—re-thinking Beckett’s response to the ART Endgame in light of earlier productions / Natka Bianchini -- Trans-cultural Endgame/s / Antonia Rodríguez-Gago -- Masking and the Social Construct of the Body in Beckett’s Endgame / Mary F. Catanzaro -- Hamm Stammered: Beckett, Deleuze, and the Atmospheric Stuttering of Endgame / Paul Shields -- But Why Shakespeare? The Muted Role of Dickens in Endgame / Paul Stewart -- Hamming it up in Endgame: A Theatrical Reading / Kate Dorney -- Endgame and Performance / Julie Campbell -- Essay Abstracts -- About the Authors -- Index.