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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989"”.
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Theatre of the Skull. Rough for Radio II by Samuel Beckett
This B.A. thesis examines Samuel Beckett’s portrayal of the artistic mind and the process of creativity in his radio play “Rough for Radio II”. The play as a piece of performance for radio will be briefly discussed. Then how Beckett highlights four different parts of the artist’s mind, turning each …
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Some aspects of Biblical influence upon the Absurdist Theater of Beckett, Ghelderode, and Arrabal
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The reflection of the wastelands of Waiting for Godot and Endgame in electronic media
… media, which helps us to understand both Beckett's work and electronic media in a scholarly, theatrical context that discrete analyses could not singularly achieve.</p>
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Godot in Earnest: Beckettian Readings of Wilde
… neglected the idea of Wilde as a precursor to Beckett. But I contend that a closer look at each writer's aesthetic and philosophic tendencies-for instance, their interest in the fluid nature of self, their understanding of identity as a performance, and their belief in language as both a way in …
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Pendulum V: DM "Vitality, Exhaustion and Fleeting Equilibrium"
… important influences (including Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Beckett, clocks, comic-book characters, gestalt theory) in the hopes of getting closer to the broader social meanings embodied by the work.
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… The dramatists of the Absurd--more specifically Samuel Beckett in <em>Waiting for Godot</em> and Eugene Ionesco in <em>The Bald Soprano-</em>-are striving to convey directly to the audience their intuition of the human situation which is ultimately absurd.</p> <p>Such is the subject matter of …
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
<p>Samuel Beckett’s play <em>Waiting for Godot</em> is commonly interpreted within the context of the Theater of the Absurd, existentialist literature, or Christian allegory. This thesis recognizes the validity of all such readings while attempting to merge these seemingly contradictory …