Zero Year : Theatre in "Century 21" ? [ THR413 ] The Cambridge Companion to Beckett 0521424135 This book provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the "trilogy" and Murphy). Further essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theater directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. A chronology of Beckett's life, a list of French and English titles and a list for further reading provide additional reference material.

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Summary

1. First impressions: notes of reactions to play on initial reading, including images, colors (be personal).

2. Research: Summarize the most important insights you have gained from your research into your play. Discuss specifically how your research findings will influence your interpretation and/or production of the play. List sources consulted (in bibliographic form).

3. One-sentence statement of action (root action/significant action).

4. Structural Analysis: identify and briefly discuss inciting incident, each major complication (in order), major crisis (turning point), major structural climax, major emotional climax, resolution. Give enough detail in your analysis so that the reader can identify the point in the play that you are talking about and why you consider this the inciting incident, etc. For complications, note the effect of the complication on the action.

5. Brief discussion of theme. State theme clearly and support your choice of theme with evidence from the play.

6. Brief discussion of style of the play. What choices are you making about style for your production? Why?

7. Spine of the play--identify and discuss briefly.

8. Character Analysis--Biography, History (see act.vtheatre.net).

9. Motivational Units: Break your scene into motivational units and number/name the units. Present this portion of the analysis in promptbook format, with starting and ending points of each unit marked; unit analysis should be on page facing page of text.

10. Discuss any particular directorial problems posed by the play and the scene.

NOTES: biblio, references & ect.

Questions

Notes

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views the individual, the self, the individual's experience, and the uniqueness therein as the basis for understanding the nature of human existence. The philosophy generally reflects a belief in freedom and accepts the consequences of individual actions, while acknowledging the responsibility attendant to the making of choices. Existentialists prefer subjectivity, and can view human beings as subjects in an indifferent and often ambiguous universe.

This is a general list of existentialist writers: Edward Albee Georges Bataille Samuel Beckett Simone de Beauvoir Michel Butor Albert Camus Louis-Ferdinand Celine Marguerite Duras Ralph Ellison Fyodor Dostoevsky* Jean Genet Andre Gide Hermann Hesse Henrik Ibsen Eugčne Ionesco Franz Kafka Jack Kerouac Jerzy Kosinski Chuck Palahniuk Alain Robbe-Grillet Catherine Robbe-Grillet Natalie Sarraute Claude Simon Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir * Nikolai Berdyaev * Henri Bergson Martin Heidegger (Like Camus, Heidegger rejected the label existentialist.) Karl Jaspers Hans Jonas * Sřren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard died too early to be a part of the existentialist movement, and would have rejected many of the tenets of Sartrean existentialism, but was one of the first philosophers to deal with the problems of human existence in a way that is recognizably a forerunner to Sartrean existentialism.) Walter Kaufmann Ladislav Klíma Emmanuel Levinas Gabriel Marcel Maurice Merleau-Ponty * Friedrich Nietzsche (Like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche died too early to be a part of the existentialist movement, and in many ways differs from existentialism as we know it, but his work can be seen as a precursor to many of the developments in later existentialist thought.) Jean-Paul Sartre * Lev Shestov * Max Stirner Peter Wessel Zapffe

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