Beckett’s Co-authors

Rewriting Waiting for Godot

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beckett's Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett's first professionally produced play, Waiting for Godot, and its premieres in the US, UK and the Republic of Ireland, this book examines extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and how such interventions challenges the autonomy of the author and his artwork. Calling the result of these early collaborations 'co-authorship', S. E. Gontarski delves into the hybrid genre of theatre where collective aesthetics tends to override and thus supersede individual creation, using the methodology of archival archaeology to uncover previously unpublished letters and unknown archival documents relating to three national premieres. These case studies nevertheless have implications far beyond a single theatrical work, placing a spotlight on the nature of authorship and the process of realising dramatic texts in a monetised culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOther Becketts
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399529334

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S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

List of FiguresSeries Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue Note on the Text1. Overview: A Genealogy of Intervention2. The Broadway Adepts, or Wilderizing Beckett3. Godot’s Bad Blood: The Tumult in Miami4. Cutting up Godot5. Mimeography: Godot and the Uncertainties of Textual Transmission6. ‘Cerebral physiology’: Degeneration and the Irrelevance of Godot7. The Case for Multiple AuthorshipAppendix A. Waiting for Godot. Theatre Arts. XL.8 (August 1956): 36-61 (collation)Appendix B. Peter Snow’s Autograph Revisions Collated with the Grove Press editionAppendix C. Donald Albery’s memo to the Lord Chamberlain, 26 April 1954Appendix D. Known Mimeographed Versions of Waiting for GodotRelevant ArchivesReferencesNotesIndex