S. E. Gontarski (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Gontarski, S. E. “Staging Himself, or Beckett's Late Style in the Theatre.” Samuel Beckett Today 6 (1997): 87-97.
[In the following essay, Gontarski appraises Beckett's reworking of his earlier plays and the changes they have undergone, paying particular attention to Play.]
In the early 1960s the nature of Samuel Beckett's writing for the theatre changed profoundly as he increased his direct advisory role in productions of his work and as he finally began to take full charge of directing his own...
Source: Drama Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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