Research Catalog

Title

Past crimson, past woe : the Shakespeare-Beckett connection / edited by Anne Marie Drew.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Drew, Anne Marie.

Description

xix, 173 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1756. Studies in modern drama ; v. 4

Uniform Title

• Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1756.
• Garland reference library of the humanities. Studies in modern drama ; v. 4.

Alternative Title

Shakespeare-Beckett connection

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Knowledge and learning
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Influence
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Dramatic works
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Shakespeare, William
• Beckett, Samuel
• Comparative literature > English and Irish
• Comparative literature > Irish and English
• Drama > History and criticism
• Intertextuality
• 18.05 English literature
• Literature
• Criticism and interpretation
• Drama
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Intertextuality
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Intertekstualiteit

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169).

Contents

'As strange a maze as e'er man trod' : Samuel Beckett's allusions to Shakespeare's last plays / William Hutchings -- 'A sad tale's best for winter' : storytelling and tragicomedy in the late plays of Shakespeare and Beckett / Verna A. Foster -- 'Though women all above ... beneath is all the fiend's' : female trouble in Williams Shakespeare's King Lear and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days / Ann C. Hall -- No safe spaces : private and public violability in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Beckett's Happy Days / Jeanne Colleran and Maryclaire Moroney -- Clowns, fools, and blind men : King Lear and Waiting for Godot / Victoria Sullivan -- No deposit, no return : the cap and bells in Hamlet and Endgame / Anne Marie Drew -- Beckett's Hamm and Shakespeare's Richard III : a couple of Canettian autocrats / Robert Anderson and Steven J. Rosen -- The failure of Telos in King Lear and Endgame / Laura Marvel -- The end is in the beginning : story telling in Shakespeare, Beckett (and Stoppard) / Kellie Harrison Bean -- Critical figures : Shakespeare, Beckett, and the survival of theatre / Judith A. Roof -- 'Rounded with a sleep' : director's notes for Waiting for Godot and The Tempest / Dwight Watson -- If in doubt, drop your drawers : an actor's point of view / Edward Atienza.

ISBN

• 0815313837
• 9780815313830

LCCN

93017684

OCLC

• ocm28065149
• 28065149
• SCSB-14720030

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library