Theatre of Shadows: Beckett's Drama

by Rosemary Pountney

Perhaps nothing is more fascinating to the student of literature than an insight into a writer's creative process, a study of how the published works, from All That Fall to Footfalls, came to be as they are. Theatre of Shadows both defines and takes as its subject the middle period of Samuel Beckett's dramatic writing. By making a close study of the structure, and of the largely unpublished manus-cript drafts, of the plays written from 1956 to 1976,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861404076
• ISBN13: 9780861404070
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Colin Smythe
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.