Reductionism In Drama And The Theater: The Case Of Samuel Beckett

Reductionism In Drama And The Theater: The Case Of Samuel Beckett

A detailed examination of Beckett's dramas based on reductionist models in the arts and sciences. Various experimental aspects of composition and production are shown to reflect Beckett?s search for a minimal theater of silence and inaction, as well as his epistemological uncertainty.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part1: Principles and Methods of Reductionism
    • 1. Reductionism in the Natural Sciences
    • 2. Reductionism in the Human Sciences
    • 3. Critique of Reductionism
  • Part II: Towards an Epistemology of Drama and the Theatre
    • 1. The Arts and the Sciences
    • 2. The Theatre as Practical Science
    • 3. The Theatre and Truth
    • 4. Analysis in Action on a Stage of Observation
    • 5. Processing the Product
  • Part III: Samuel Beckett: Less. Ever Less
    • Chronology of Beckett's Dramatic Works
    • Section A: A Celebration of Diminution
      • 1. Reductions from Conventional Drama to Godot
      • 2. Reductions from Godot to What Where
      • 3. Reductions from Beginning to End
      • 4. Draft Manuscript Reductions
      • 5. Directorial Reductions
      • 6. Reductions to Other Art Forms
    • Section B: Epistemology of Indeterminacy
  • Summary and Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography

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