Shortness of Breath: Beckett’s Breath in Context
Shortness of Breath: Beckett’s Breath in Context
The chapter examines the ways artists and directors have staged Breath. The “stagings” or “displays” of the playlet are examined in an attempt to show how artists and directors have responded to Breath's intermedial structure. The presence of the human body in certain of these works, is in contrast to Beckett's central decision to eradicate the body/subject from the stage. Consequently, these art works disregard (fail to see) the existential and ontological importance of Beckett's decision to eradicate the figure of the performer by presenting the “absence” of the human subject.
Keywords: Intermediality, human subject, Hirst, Tynan, Navridis, Guimarães’, Gontarski
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