Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment (1st ed. 2017) (New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century)

Synopsis

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 certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising—for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Copyright:

2017

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ISBN-13:

9781137542656

Related ISBNs:

9781349951307, 9781137542618

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

Date of Addition:

04/09/21

Copyrighted By:

gency to ask for permission to make an English translation and radio adaption. In early August

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

David Addyman

Edited by:

Matthew Feldman

Edited by:

Erik Tonning