Samuel Beckett and Television

Samuel Beckett and Television

This article focuses on the plays and adaptation written for television  by Beckett, having already explored radio and even cinema, in addition to his works for theatre and texts in prose. With his stated preference for visual language and his obsession with minimalism, nothing better than televisio...

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Main Author: Célia Berettini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses 2006-06-01
Series:ABEI Journal
Subjects:
samuel beckett
plays
television.
Online Access:http://revistas.fflch.usp.br/abei/article/view/3713
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spelling doaj-dc8a99b1ed0940b4a12d847b9587e7762020-11-25T01:53:33ZengAssociação Brasileira de Estudos IrlandesesABEI Journal1518-05812595-81272006-06-0180172510.37389/abei.v8i0.37132878Samuel Beckett and TelevisionCélia Berettini0University of São PauloThis article focuses on the plays and adaptation written for television  by Beckett, having already explored radio and even cinema, in addition to his works for theatre and texts in prose. With his stated preference for visual language and his obsession with minimalism, nothing better than television; besides, without words, he was able to give an original treatment to subjects previously covered: unhappy love, time, death and loneliness, often through melancholic recollection. He was thus an inventor of “a totally new genre”: “visual poems or without words”, some with music, as Martin Esslin classified these small masterpieces.http://revistas.fflch.usp.br/abei/article/view/3713samuel beckettplaystelevision.
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publishDate 2006-06-01
description This article focuses on the plays and adaptation written for television  by Beckett, having already explored radio and even cinema, in addition to his works for theatre and texts in prose. With his stated preference for visual language and his obsession with minimalism, nothing better than television; besides, without words, he was able to give an original treatment to subjects previously covered: unhappy love, time, death and loneliness, often through melancholic recollection. He was thus an inventor of “a totally new genre”: “visual poems or without words”, some with music, as Martin Esslin classified these small masterpieces.
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plays
television.
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