Week
9/30
Eleutheria: The Playwright Arrives
Waiting For Godot: Performances and Interpretations
Eleutheria and Waiting for Godot by Beckett
"Waiting for Godot and Endgame: theatre as text" by Michael Worton and "Samuel Beckett as director: the art of mastering failure" by Anna McMullan in Cambridge Companion
Further Readings:
Walter D. Asmus "Beckett Directs Godot" in editor S.E. Gontarski’s On Beckett: Essays and Criticism. New York: Grove Press, 1986, pgs. 308-324.
Herbert Blau "Notes from the Underground: Waiting for Godot and Endgame" in editor S.E. Gontarski On Beckett: Essays and Criticism. New York: Grove Press, 1986, pgs. 255-279.Peter Boxall “Freedom and Cultural Location in Eleutheria” in editor Marius Buning et al Beckett versus Beckett. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, pgs. 245-258.
Ruby Cohn "The Play That Wasn’t Staged: Eleutheria" in Just Play: Beckett’s Theatre. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980, pgs. 163-172.
Gerry Dukes "The Second Englishing of Eleutheria" in editor Marius Buning et al Beckett versus Beckett. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998, pgs.75-80.
Wilhelm Fuger "The First Berlin Godot: Beckett’s Debut on the German Stage" in editors Angela Moorjan and Carola Veit Samuel Beckett: Endlessnes in the Year 2000. New York: Rodopi, 2001, pg. 57-63.
Jonathan Kalb "Considerations of Acting in the Early Plays" in his Beckett in Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989 pgs. 24-47.
Ilan Ronen "Waiting for Godot as Political Theatre" in Directing Beckett. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994, pgs. 239-249.
Alan Schneider "Working with Beckett" in editor Edouard Morot-Sir et al Samuel Beckett: The Art of Rhetoric. Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1976, pgs. 271-289.
2nd Round of Play Presentations
One of the further readings
One of the further readings