Chapter 4. Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht
Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch4
Copyright © 2010 W. B. Worthen
Book Title
Drama: Between Poetry and Performance
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How to Cite
Worthen, W. B. (2010) Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht, in Drama: Between Poetry and Performance, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444317374.ch4
Publication History
- Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
- Published Print: 18 DEC 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405153416
Online ISBN: 9781444317374
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- writing space - Beckett and Brecht;
- Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I - agency of writing in the framing of theatrical space;
- Beckett's blending of presentational space of stage - with represented space of drama, is distinctive;
- writing, not creating space, used to transform it, to lend spatial configuration of a specific theatrical location significance;
- Quad - Euclidean dramaturgies;
- Quad as “really more a set of assembly instructions than a play proper”;
- dramatic writing, never brought into play as “speech”, nonetheless claiming a place in the spectacle;
- Quad allegorizing agency of dramatic writing - as it engages material space of the stage;
- Quad dramatic allegory of a model of theatrical spatiality - associated with Beckett;
- Brechtian Technologies - claiming a theatre of production changes spectator's relation to the events
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Quad: Euclidean Dramaturgies
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What Where: Brechtian Technologies