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Author:   Dr David Tucker (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ,  Trish McTighe (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9781474240161

ISBN 10:   147424016
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   19 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Information on Contributors Foreword, James Knowlson Introduction, David Tucker and Trish McTighe Section 1: Origins, Theatres, Directors 1. The Arrival of Godot: Beckett, British Theatre and the 1950s, by David Pattie 2. Beckett at the Royal Court, by S.E. Gontarski 3. Beckett at the Riverside Studios, by Matthew McFrederick, 4. Beckett at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, by Mark Taylor-Batty 5. Beckett in London’s West End, by John Stokes 6. Beckett and Peter Hall, by Sos Eltis Section 2: Productions, Locations, Legacies 7. A Production History of Krapp’s Last Tape in the UK, by Andrew Head 8. Staging Beckett’s Shorts, by Derval Tubridy 9. Talawa’s Waiting for Godot, by Kene Igweonu 10. Mindscapes Amongst Thistle: Producing Samuel Beckett’s Plays in Scotland, by Ksenija Horvat 11. Beckett Goes Nude: Breath, Oh! Calcutta! and the Sexual Revolution, Graham Saunders 12. ‘That first last look in the shadows’: Beckett’s Legacies for Harold Pinter, David Tucker Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Trish McTighe is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (2013), and has published in several international journals on aesthetics, corporeality and technology in performance. David Tucker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of a number of publications on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’ (Bloomsbury, 2012), and is co-editor with Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, Vol. 26 (2014): ‘Revisiting Molloy, Malone muert/Malone Dies and L’Innommable/The Unnamable’.

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