About Beckett : the playwright and the work / John Fletcher.
By: Fletcher, John
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BookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2003Description: xiv, 230 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0571201245 .Other title: Beckett.Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Stage history | Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Dramatic works | Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography | Irish -- France -- BiographyDDC classification: 828.912 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 828.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00097781 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Each volume in the About series contains an introduction to a specific writer, which sets his work in the relevant social and political context; a digest of interviews given by the writer; new material, specially gathered for this publication, including conversations with the author, directors, actors, and other theatre workers; and an annotated bibliography.
Bibliography: (pages 215-220) and index.
The Literary and Cultural Context: Modernism and Postmodernism -- Beckett's Development as a Dramatist -- Survey of Interviews given by Beckett -- Beckett as Director -- Collaboration and Resistance.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
The team of Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) wrote some of the most popular dramas of Elizabethan England.Beaumont and Fletcher began to work together in about 1606 and continued their partnership until Beaumont's retirement in 1613. Beaumont apparently was the primary plotter of their plays, while Fletcher had a strong flair for language. Their comedies and tragedies include The Woman Hater, The Coxcomb, A Maid's Tragedy, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Wit Without Money, and Philaster, Or Love Lies A Bleeding. Fletcher wrote several plays alone as well, such as the comedy The Wild Goose Chase (1621) and the tragedy Bonduca (1614). Cardenio, or the Second Maiden's Tragedy, and Two Noble Kinsmen are attributed to Fletcher, although there has been some speculation he collaborated on these with Shakespeare.
Beaumont and Fletcher's work is energetic, full of stage thrills, declamatory speeches and bizarre plots. Though it is not as rich and unified as that of some of their contemporaries including Shakespeare and Webster, it influenced the development of Restoration comedy and tragedy, and thus played an important role in the history of drama.
(Bowker Author Biography)