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McMullan, Anna, 1957-

Performing embodiment in Samuel Beckett's drama / Anna McMullan. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2010. - x, 186 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 12 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-176) and index.

Introduction -- Dehiscent bodies : from Le Kid to Eleutheria -- Intercorporeal performances and the hauntings of history in Waiting for Godot and Endgame -- This visible flesh : Krapp's last tape and Happy days -- Mimes and fragments : corporeal laboratories -- Radiophonic embodiments -- The flesh of the screen and the "eye of prey" : Beckett's film -- Unhomely semblances and the televisual matrix -- The late theatre : performing traces of embodiment -- Mutated bodies : stage performances of Beckett's late prose texts -- Conclusion : re-embodying Beckett's drama in the twenty-first century.

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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Dramatic works.


Human body in literature.

PR6003.E282 / Z7767 2010

842.914 / M168