Radio Beckett by Kevin Branigan - 9783039113712

Radio BeckettMusicality in the Radio Plays of Samuel Beckett\nAuthor(s): Kevin Branigan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Verlag Peter Lang, Switzerland\nImprint: Verlag Peter Lang\nISBN-13: 9783039113712, 978-3039113712\nSynopsis\nIn the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot [tel], Samuel Beckett wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio. These plays display the authors appreciation of the essential properties of radio broadcasting. They also highlight a profound musicality which, while evident in his novels, poetry and plays, is particularly noteworthy in this medium.\n This book is an analysis of the contribution made to radio drama by Beckett. In these plays, he is concerned with themes of human isolation and the frailty of memory and communication. He identified radio as an ideal medium for the presentation of these themes and the development of drama which could transcend the limitations of realism.\n Beckett used music as an essential component of his radio outp.