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Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theater
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Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theater
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explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with
and continuing through
and
, Brater examines the plays not only as texts but also as theater pieces. Discussing the technical and aesthetic demands that productions like
make on actor, director, and spectator, Brater clarifies the essential relationship between Beckett's achievement in the context of the breakdown of genre, performance poetry, and the electronic intrusion of the recorded voice as a new theatrical convention. In the course of his analysis Brater demonstrates how Beckett's late style in the theater both continues and clarifies the dramatic lyricism that is the hallmark of earlier works such as
.