Beckett the Shape Changer by Katharine Worth

Beckett the Shape Changer by Katharine Worth

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett's art as dramatist and story-teller. His astonishing flexibility and inventiveness is stressed throughout, either in studies of single novels, or from the whole range of the fiction and stage drama, or from the experiments in other media: the solitary film, the radio plays. Beckett's bilingualism, one of the strangest aspects of his Proteanism, is examined through a comparison of the French and English texts of some of his stage plays. The emphasis of the essays is literary rather than philosophical: they explore narrative and dramatic processes, the strange partial transitions between them, the fine relations of form and feeling which Beckett aims at through whatever medium he is using, and his humaneness, expressed through the many nuances of his humour. The shorter fiction and the later writings also receive close attention.

KATHARINE WORTH is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the University of London and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. She is known as a writer on Beckett and modern Irish and English drama.

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ISBN 13	9780710081230
ISBN 10	0710081235
Title	Beckett the Shape Changer
Author	Katharine Worth
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Year published	1975-05-22
Number of pages	235
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