Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space

Dr James Little (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
18 November 2021
Pages
256
ISBN
9781350243224

Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space

Dr James Little (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre - from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett’s work. Covering the full range of Beckett’s writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished ‘Mongrel Mime’, the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett’s poetics.

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