Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 'All the Dead Voices': Introduction Laurens De Vos, Mariko Hori Tanaka and Nicholas E. Johnson -- Listening to the Inner Voice in Watt : Innovations in Narrative Form Julie Campbell Musicality of Voices -- Sound Matters in Beckett Linda Ben-Zvi -- Revealing the Limit of Language in Relation to Music Michiko Tsushima -- Embers : A Polyphonic Piece for Radio Jürgen Siess Voices of an Absent Other -- Samuel Beckett, Quickening the 'Dead Voices': From Waiting for Godot to That Time Llewellyn Brown -- Scratching the Surface: The Dramaturgical Oxymoron in Beckett's Silences Laurens De Vos -- Why Is 'Listener' Named ' Souvenant '?: The Role of the Spectator in a Bilingual Reading of That Time / Cette fois Kumiko Kiuchi -- Un-bodied Voices, the Thing Itself and Beckett's Neural Theatre S. E. Gontarski Voices of the Vulnerable -- Pacing as Repressed Memory of Embodiment and Enactment in Footfalls Svetlana Antropova -- 'Rock Her Off': The Paradoxical Tension of the Split Voice in Rockaby Teresa Rosell Nicolás -- Technology and the Voices of the More than Human in Beckett's All That Fall Anna McMullan -- A Creamy Work: Schiller and Beckett Arthur Rose Cinematic Voices -- Filmic Perspectives in Speaker's Narrative of A Piece of Monologue Mariko Hori Tanaka -- Cinematic Adaptations of Beckett's Breath Anna Sigg -- Translating Silence: Ashish Avikunthak's Cinematographic Version of Come and Go Thirthankar Chakraborty Enacted Voices in Performance and Media -- Without Colour: Beckett and the Stage Voice Nicholas E. Johnson and Cathal Quinn -- Beckett in Performance: The Body of a Beckettian Actor Melissa Nolan -- Translating Beckett's Voices in Different Cultures Yoshiko Takebe -- Articulations of Voice and Medium in Beckett's Screen Work Jonathan Bignell -- All That Fall as a Case Study in the Possibilities and Problematics of Re-routing Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays for Performance in Other Media Everett C. Frost -- Index.

Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckett uses 'voice' as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett's work across a range of texts, genres, and performance cultures. Twenty-one contributors, all members of the Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, discuss the musicality of Beckett's voices, the voice as 'absent other', the voices of the vulnerable, the cinematic voice, and enacted voices in performance and media. The volume engages not only with Beckett's history and legacy, but also with many of the central theoretical issues in theatre studies as a whole. Featuring testimonies from Beckett practitioners as well as emerging and established scholars, it is emblematic of the thriving and diverse community that is twenty-first century Beckett Studies. Contributors: Svetlana Antropova, Linda Ben-Zvi, Jonathan Bignell, Llewellyn Brown, Julie Campbell, Thirthankar Chakraborty, Laurens De Vos, Everett C. Frost, S. E. Gontarski, Mariko Hori Tanaka, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kumiko Kiuchi, Anna McMullan, Melissa Nolan, Cathal Quinn, Arthur Rose, Teresa Rosell Nicolás, Jürgen Siess, Anna Sigg, Yoshiko Takebe, Michiko Tsushima.

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