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About the Author
Revolutions in Modern English Drama (Bell & Hyman, 1973) Beckett the Shape Changer (Routledge, 1975) The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett (Athlone Press, 1978) Oscar Wilde (Macmillan, 1983) Maeterlinck's Plays in Performance (Chadwyck-Healey, 1985) Waiting for Godot and Happy Days: Text and Performance (Houndmill/Macmillan, 1990) Sheridan and Goldsmith (Houndmill, 1992)
Reviews
Professor Worth writes with rare beauty of thought and style, and her personal knowledge of, and collaboration with, Beckett lends her thoughts added weight. The chapter on quotations is particularly engrossing. * English Studies *
[Worth] brings to this study not only her considerable erudition as scholar and critic but what is now virtually a career of studying Beckett's plays and their performances. The book is rich and rewarding in its frequent reference to many productions and to the insights of the author's extended conversations with Beckett about intepretation and performance ... A lively and readable book. * Choice *
Impressive ... if there can be such a thing as a page-turner in dramatic criticism devoted to the work of a single author, Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys surely comes close to the mark ... it would be hard to meet her match for finding the small and significant detail that opens up a play to wide dramatic resonance ... This is Beckett criticism at its best, and it is Beckett criticism that will last. * Enoch Brater, The Beckett Circle/Le Cercle de Beckett *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198187790
Author Katharine Worth
Format Paperback
Page Count 204
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 266g
Dimensions(mm) 138mm * 216mm * 13mm