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The Work of Poverty is an impassioned meditation on the theater in times of crisis, penury, and precariousness. Lance Duerfahrd accounts for the enduring appeal of a play like Waiting for Godot and, what is more, makes the reader experience the excitement felt by underprivileged audiences and actors in situations of danger or terror. -Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities and professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania Lance Duerfahrd investigates Beckett's continuing relevance to our world and the conditions under which Godot speaks not just as intellectual enigma to scholars of literature but empathetically and urgently to the survivors of life in prison, civil war, and floods. The Work of Poverty is energized by an eye toward this relevance, not only for these audiences in what Duerfahrd terms 'landscapes of crisis, ' but for the author and his reader. -Eyal Peretz, Indiana University, Bloomington Duerfahrd's The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis honors the life of Beckett's legacy: poetic despairing themes matrixing human historical constants, desperation without destination, the poetry of man's universal suffering. -Rick Cluchey, Co-Founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop

The Work of Poverty is an impassioned meditation on the theater in times of crisis, penury, and precariousness. Lance Duerfahrd accounts for the enduring appeal of a play like Waiting for Godot and, what is more, makes the reader experience the excitement felt by underprivileged audiences and actors in situations of danger or terror. -Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities and professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania Lance Duerfahrd investigates Beckett's continuing relevance to our world and the conditions under which Godot speaks not just as intellectual enigma to scholars of literature but empathetically and urgently to the survivors of life in prison, civil war, and floods. The Work of Poverty is energized by an eye toward this relevance, not only for these audiences in what Duerfahrd terms 'landscapes of crisis, ' but for the author and his reader. -Eyal Peretz, Indiana University, Bloomington Duerfahrd's The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis honors the life of Beckett's legacy: poetic despairing themes matrixing human historical constants, desperation without destination, the poetry of man's universal suffering. -Rick Cluchey, Co-Founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop Duerfahrd'sThe Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis honors the life of Beckett's legacy: poetic despairing themes matrixing human historical constants, desperation without destination, the poetry of man's universal suffering. --Rick Cluchey, Co-Founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop Lance Duerfahrd investigates Beckett's continuing relevance to our world and the conditions under which Godot speaks not just as intellectual enigma to scholars of literature but empathetically and urgently to the survivors of life in prison, civil war, and floods. The Work of Poverty is energized by an eye toward this relevance, not only for these audiences in what Duerfahrd terms 'landscapes of crisis, ' but for the author and his reader. --Eyal Peretz, Indiana University, Bloomington The Work of Poverty is an impassioned mediation on the theater in times of crisis, penury, and precariousness. Lance Duerfahrd accounts for the enduring appeal of a play like Waiting for Godot and, what is more, makes the reader experience the excitement felt by underprivileged audiences and actors in situations of danger or terror. --Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities University and professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania Duerfahrd sThe Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis honors the life of Beckett s legacy: poetic despairing themes matrixing human historical constants, desperation without destination, the poetry of man s universal suffering. Rick Cluchey, Co-Founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop Lance Duerfahrd investigates Beckett s continuing relevance to our world and the conditions under which Godot speaks not just as intellectual enigma to scholars of literature but empathetically and urgently to the survivors of life in prison, civil war, and floods. The Work of Poverty is energized by an eye toward this relevance, not only for these audiences in what Duerfahrd terms landscapes of crisis, but for the author and his reader. Eyal Peretz, Indiana University, Bloomington The Work of Poverty is an impassioned mediation on the theater in times of crisis, penury, and precariousness. Lance Duerfahrd accounts for the enduring appeal of a play like Waiting for Godot and, what is more, makes the reader experience the excitement felt by underprivileged audiences and actors in situations of danger or terror. Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities University and professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

Duerfahrd s<i>The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis </i>honors the life of Beckett s legacy: poetic despairing themes matrixing human historical constants, desperation without destination, the poetry of man s universal suffering. Rick Cluchey, Co-Founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop

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Lance Duerfahrd is assistant professor of English at Purdue University.

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