Beckett’s Co-authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot (Other Becketts) - Tapa dura

Gontarski, S. E.

 
9781399529334: Beckett’s Co-authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot (Other Becketts)
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ISBN 10: 1399529331 ISBN 13: 9781399529334
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

Beckett's Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett's first professionally produced play, Waiting for Godot, and its premieres in the US, UK and the Republic of Ireland, this book examines extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and how such interventions challenges the autonomy of the author and his artwork. Calling the result of these early collaborations 'co-authorship', S. E. Gontarski delves into the hybrid genre of theatre where collective aesthetics tends to override and thus supersede individual creation, using the methodology of archival archaeology to uncover previously unpublished letters and unknown archival documents relating to three national premieres. These case studies nevertheless have implications far beyond a single theatrical work, placing a spotlight on the nature of authorship and the process of realising dramatic texts in a monetised culture.

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Acerca del autor

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

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Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
1399529331
ISBN 13 
9781399529334
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Número de páginas
296
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