Title: Impact and parable in Beckett: a first encounter with "Not I"
Abstract:The writer on Beckett's plays must steer a course between Scylla and Charybdis, between objective analysis and subjective reaction.1 The problem is inherent in the material. Beckett has deliberately d...The writer on Beckett's plays must steer a course between Scylla and Charybdis, between objective analysis and subjective reaction.1 The problem is inherent in the material. Beckett has deliberately devised his plays not to be read in the solitude of the study as one might read a novel or a poem but to be seen and heard by an audience in the theatre. Unless these conditions are present, the plays cannot exist fully for Beckett, and so he will speak of the first run-through with actors as the 'realisation' of the play and when it has been performed publicly he will say that it has been 'created'. As the late George Devine, Beckett's greatest English director, wrote in a programme note:Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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