The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett - Charles A. Carpenter [PDF] {01001001}

Description



This is a selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels. The scholarship devoted to the dramatic writings of Samuel Beckett is so vast that there is a real need for a full and easy-to-use secondary bibliography enabling students and scholars at all levels to locate and select what they need. This requires comprehensive coverage of those publications which can be deemed both substantial and accessible treatments of topics relevant to his career as a dramatist. In Beckett's case, full coverage extends from the influences and origins of his great variety of plays to their presentations on stage, television, film, and radio, in many countries and venues. This essential bibliography offers comprehensive coverage of the thousands of substantial studies in all Roman-alphabet languages, a clear and helpful arrangement by topics and individual plays, and a lucid, uncluttered bibliographical format to make it as user-friendly as possible.

About the Author

Charles A. Carpenter is Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University, USA. He has over forty years experience of teaching modern drama and literary bibliography and is a specialist in compiling bibliographies of modern dramatists. His publications include Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1966-1980: An International Bibliography (University of Toronto Press, 1986) and Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990: An International Bibliography (University of Toronto Press, 1997).