Thesis
A witness to pain: Samuel Beckett and post-war Francophone drama
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This thesis examines how Beckett stages physical pain in his early theatre plays, arguing that Eleutheria (1947, pub. 1995), En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot (1952/1954), Fin de partie/Endgame (1957), Happy Days/Oh les beaux jours (1961/1963), Play/Comédie (1964) and Not I/Pas moi (1972/1975) generate intensely sceptical readings of sympathetic or redemptive forms of witnessing. These plays raise questions about our capacity both to...
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Funding
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Copyright holder:
- Simpson, H
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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