Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio
Title | Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio PDF eBook |
Author | David Addyman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137542659 |
This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.
The Making of Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays
Title | The Making of Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Pim Verhulst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
All that Fall
Title | All that Fall PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
Published to celebrate the centenary of Beckett's birth
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
Title | All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2012-09-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0571297080 |
This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compacted of speech, sound and silence - and the plays in this volume intently explore the resources and limits of the sound-stage.My father, back from the dead, to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No, simply back from the dead, to be with me, in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes, he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No, he doesn't answer me. (Pause.) Just be with me. (Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that sound you hear is the sea, we are sitting on the strand. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.). Hooves!Contents: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Quad, Film, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Nacht und Träume, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Cascando, The Old TunePreface and Notes by Everett Frost
Beckett and Broadcasting
Title | Beckett and Broadcasting PDF eBook |
Author | Clas Zilliacus |
Publisher | Abo : Abo Akademi |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Radio plays |
ISBN |
Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Title | Samuel Beckett and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Oppenheim |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000378519 |
This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book uncovers aspects of his thinking on, and use of the arts that have been little studied, including the nonfigurative function of music and art in Beckett’s work; the ‘collaborations’ undertaken by composers, painters and choreographers with his texts; the relation of his literary to his visual and musical artistry; and his use of film, radio and television as innovative means and celebration of artistic process.
Radio Beckett
Title | Radio Beckett PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Branigan |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9783039113712 |
In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), Samuel Beckett wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio. These plays display the author's appreciation of the essential properties of radio broadcasting. They also highlight a profound musicality which, while evident in his novels, poetry and plays, is particularly noteworthy in this medium. This book is an analysis of the contribution made to radio drama by Beckett. In these plays, he is concerned with themes of human isolation and the frailty of memory and communication. He identified radio as an ideal medium for the presentation of these themes and the development of drama which could transcend the limitations of realism. Beckett used music as an essential component of his radio output for a variety of purposes. In this study, the author argues that, while Beckett's radio plays are suffused with a bleak sense of disintegration of language, music offers a sense of optimism. A variety of musical and performance perspectives is utilised to gain a greater appreciation of these radio plays.