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Shakespeare and Beckett

Claudia Olk author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Jan '23

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This unique study is the first monograph on the manifold intertextual relations and poetic echoes between Shakespeare and Beckett.

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. It addresses an academic readership in literature and theatre studies, revealing hitherto undiscovered links between major works of both authors, including in music and in the visual arts.'The danger is in the neatness of identifications', Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. This book addresses the vast intertextual network between the works of both writers and explores the resonant correspondences between them. It analyses where and how these resonances manifest themselves in their aesthetics, theatre, language and form. It traces convergences and inversions across both œuvres that resound beyond their conditions of production and possibility. Uncovering hitherto unexplored relations between the texts of an early modern and a late modern author, this study seeks to offer fresh readings of single passages and entire works, but it will also describe productive tensions and creative incongruences between them.

ISBN: 9781316514030

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 19mm

Weight: 510g

300 pages