Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Davide Crosara (PhD, “Sapienza”) is Adjunct Professor of English at “Sapienza” Università di Roma. His main fields of interest are Shakespeare studies, Modernism, posthumanism and the interconnectedness between literature and science.Mario Martino (PhD, Florence University) is Professor of English Literature at “Sapienza” Università di Roma. His research interests include Elizabethan and seventeenth-century lyric poetry, the Victorian novel, Modernism, Beckett, and the relationship between literature and science.

• Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Davide Crosara; Part One: Visual Encounters, Chapter 1. ‘The Pantheon at Rome or Certain Beehive Tombs’: Beckett’s Posthumous Architecture - Mark Byron; Chapter 2. Some Notes on Beckett and Michelangelo -Mariacristina Cavecchi; Chapter 3. ‘C’est l’Image la Dernière’: Samuel Beckett and Gastone Novelli - Davide Crosara; Part Two: Radio and Opera, Chapter 4. Beckett’s Neither, an ‘Anti-Opera’ in Rome - Yuri Chung; Chapter 5. Dante, Wartime Radio and the Italia Prize -Pim Verhulst; Part Three: Poetic Voices, Chapter 6. Beckett the Troubadour - Mario Martino; Chapter 7. The Empty House: Watt’s Leopardi Traces- Will Davies; Part Four: Echoes. Translations, Reverberations; Chapter 8. Beckett Resonating in Italy. Which Text, Whose Voice?- Rossana Sebellin; Chapter 9. Beckett After Language - Mena Mitrano

“The approach to the problem of Samuel Beckett’s interest in Italian culture is new and original. The analysis of far less-noticed aspects both in juvenile and mature Beckett’s works is accurate and persuasive. The research of allusions above all in not only prominent artists and in not only great arts but in less-important Italian artists (Gastone Novelli) and popular genres (opera and radio) is very important. The intersection between theory and analysis is interesting. The organization of the contents is very good.” —Annamaria Cascetta, Professor of History of Theatre, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy.