The Last Tape

Author : Daniel Sack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317335351

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Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape by Daniel Sack Pdf

"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - Krapp Samuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) with a general reader in mind. Structured around a series of questions, five approachable sections contextualize the play in the larger career of its Nobel-Prize-winning writer, explore its major thematic concerns, and offer comparative analyses with Beckett’s other signal works. Sack also uses discussions of significant productions, including those directed by the playwright himself, to ground interpretation of the play in terms of its performance and provide a useful resource to directors and actors. Both a critical and personal exploration of this haunting play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Beckett’s work.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4100620

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Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Krapp's last tape is a monologue of a man who, after 30 years, plays back the autobiographical tape he had recorded on his 39th birthday. All that fall is about the pilgrimage of an old Irish woman to meet her blind, grumbling husband at the train. In Embers, an old man and his wife ramble on and on. In Act without words I, a man responds to inviting off-stage whistles only to be thrown back from the wings. Act without words II has two men emerging from sacks to perform corresponding motions of living.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471233847

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Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, including Waiting for Godot. Here are the two most famous plays for solo voice. Krapp's Last Tape finds an old man, with his tape recorder, musing over the past and future. Not I is a remarkable tour de force for a single actress, as a woman emits memories and fears. Also included are two other singular short dramas for single voice, That Time read by John Moffatt and A Piece of Monologue read by Peter Marinker.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571297009

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Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker) The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter works or 'dramaticules' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. KRAPP 'Here I end this reel. Box - [ Pause.] - three, spool - [ Pause.] - five. [ Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [ Staring motionless before him.]

Author : Alex Niven
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782795445

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The Last Tape by Alex Niven Pdf

In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness. Adopting a style grounded in the radical minimalism of northern English modernism and romanticism, Niven writes poems constructed out of traditional forms cut up and reassembled to produce an abrupt lyric realism ideally suited to the political subject matter of his verse. These are poems of anger, mourning, and finally, extraordinary optimism, announcing the arrival of a historically lucid new bearing in twenty-first-century British poetry.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802144386

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The Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822205432

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Hughie by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

THE STORY: Originally produced on Broadway, revived to sellout houses in 1996 starring Al Pacino, HUGHIE was one of O'Neill's last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill de

Author : Burç İdem Dinçel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443835473

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Last Tape on Stage in Translation by Burç İdem Dinçel Pdf

Samuel Beckett’s theatrical works maintain a prominent position within contemporary theatre. His plays provide a prodigious potential to study several forms of acting, staging, and dramaturgy, as well as language and translation, thereby setting a fertile ground to tackle the problematic issue of the relationship between theatre criticism and theatre-translation criticism. That is precisely what this study examines by drawing attention to the fundamental characteristics of translated theatre texts as blueprints for productions and taking several aspects into account from directing to acting, from staging to performance, together with the language factor. To that end, Burç İdem Dinçel focuses on one of Beckett’s most significant plays, namely, Krapp’s Last Tape, situating it within the author’s oeuvre and along the way scrutinising not only the theatrical pieces but also the prose. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings forth a new dimension into approaching theatre through translation.

Author : Daniel Sack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317335368

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Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape by Daniel Sack Pdf

"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - Krapp Samuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth century’s most moving dramas about aging, memory, and disappointment. Daniel Sack offers the first comprehensive survey of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) with a general reader in mind. Structured around a series of questions, five approachable sections contextualize the play in the larger career of its Nobel-Prize-winning writer, explore its major thematic concerns, and offer comparative analyses with Beckett’s other signal works. Sack also uses discussions of significant productions, including those directed by the playwright himself, to ground interpretation of the play in terms of its performance and provide a useful resource to directors and actors. Both a critical and personal exploration of this haunting play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Beckett’s work.

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472534239

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The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande' by Dirk Van Hulle Pdf

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'La dernière bande'/'Krapp's Last Tape' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: - A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages - A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history - A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English drama
ISBN : UVA:X004046936

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All that Fall by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Published to celebrate the centenary of Beckett's birth

Author : Eugene Webb
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295805283

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The Plays of Samuel Beckett by Eugene Webb Pdf

In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying tendencies of Beckett's mind and art.

Author : Charles Neal
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0946719020

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Tape Delay by Charles Neal Pdf

Bestselling collection of interviews with the Eighties underground. Republished. A classic rock read.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374104108

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Authority by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

John Rodriguez, the new head of a secret agency tasked to monitor Area X—a lush and remote terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization—is faced with disturbing truths about himself and the agency he has sworn to serve when the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Epidemic encephalitis
ISBN : 057312129X

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A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter Pdf