Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

by Hannah Simpson

Book Overview

Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as 'disabled' in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett's work and a new theorising of Beckett's treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031041321
• ISBN13: 9783031041327
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"