Samuel Beckett: The Plays - AAA500718

• Title: Hry Samuela Becketta
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALC005A
• Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAALC005A

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
The course is designed as a wide exploration of stage and radio plays written by Beckett from the 1950s to the beginning of
the 1980s. A central objective is to follow in these plays the trajectory taken by recurrent themes such as voices resounding
in the head, fighting back and/or piecing together memories, or the omnipresence of the torturing external gaze. Moreover,
close attention will be paid to the way in which Beckett's drama often stretches its medium to the utmost limit: it will become
manifest how radically Beckett changed the face of modern drama with his fundamental experiments. The course will
combine textual analysis with an examination of the performative aspects of the play-text and the specific forms of dramatic
communication utilised. Most items will be screened or made available in audio format.

ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements include active participation in debates, an in-class presentation and a final essay (min. length 3000
words). Deadline for essays: 15 January 2008.

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Literature

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber and Faber, 1986).

"Three Dialogues by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit." Martin Esslin (ed.), Samuel Beckett.

A Collection of Critical Essays (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965) 16-22.

James Knowlson, Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996).

John Pilling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski (eds.), The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett (New York: Grove Press, 2004).

Ruby Cohn, A Beckett Canon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).

John Haynes and James Knowlson, Images of Beckett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Eoin O'Brien, The Beckett Country. Samuel Beckett's Ireland (Dublin: The Black Cat Press/ London: Faber and Faber, 1986)

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Teaching methods

seminář

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Syllabus

1 Introduction

2 Endgame

3 Happy Days

4 Krapp's Last Tape

5 Words and Music

6 Cascando

7 Play

8 Not I

9 That Time

10 Footfalls

11 no class

12 A Piece of Monologue

13 reserve + play screening

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