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Visions of absence

beckett's footfalls, ghost trio and … but the clouds …

Martin Esslin

pp. 119-129

Abstract

Not I and That Time are plays of total stasis, with the light focused on a fragment of the human body suspended in space. In the three plays which follow, movement is reintroduced. But, while Not I and That Time still contain remnants of the discursive, story-telling element, the three later plays increasingly concentrate on an image pure and simple.

Publication details

Published in:

Donaldson Ian (1983) Transformations in modern European drama. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 119-129

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06401-4_6

Full citation:

Esslin Martin (1983) „Visions of absence: beckett's footfalls, ghost trio and … but the clouds …“, In: I. Donaldson (ed.), Transformations in modern European drama, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 119–129.