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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment
Addyman
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Description for Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment
Hardback. Editor(s): Addyman, David; Feldman, Matthew; Tonning, Erik. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett's pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett's work during this crucial period of his getting known in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett's radio plays and various adaptations (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost ... Read more
This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett's pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett's work during this crucial period of his getting known in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett's radio plays and various adaptations (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349951307
SKU
V9781349951307
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99-15
About Addyman
David Addyman is Peder Sather Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published a number of articles and chapters on Beckett. Matthew Feldman is Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. He has published widely on Beckett, including Beckett's Books and the collection of essays Falsifying Beckett. ... Read more
Reviews for Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment
This book explicitly sets out to reassess the complex and changing relationship between Beckett and BBC Radio - and it does that very well indeed. All in all, then, this volume does full justice to its intricate subject matter by dint of the vast array of different approaches and viewpoints it brings together. (Pedro Querido, Journal of Beckett Studies, ... Read more