Samuel Beckett and Ecology - Nicholas E. Johnson

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

By: Nicholas E. Johnson (Editor), Trish McTighe (Editor), Céline Thobois-Gupta (Editor)

Hardcover | 29 May 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $170.00

$125.75

26%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $31.44 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

This is the first full-length book to investigate Beckett's work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to ongoing ecological crises.

In response to the ever-growing urgency of global warming, the vitality and the creativity of art and literature have been singled out as sources of hope by Nobel Prize awardee in chemistry and coiner of the 'Anthropocene', Paul J. Crutzen. Samuel Beckett was not an environmental artist, but his oeuvre, poised between forms of precarity and hope, is a rich territory for the exploration of the most pressing issues of our time: the rift between the human species, its technological and economic advancement and the ecologies that sustain it all.

In recent years, Beckett's name, aphorisms and work have frequently been invoked relative to environmental catastrophe, helping stimulate debates on ecology, the arts and the eco-systemic place of the human. Beckett and Ecology is the first full-length book to offer a wide range of scholarly and artistic responses to the ecological crises provoked, mediated or challenged by Beckett's work. The volume reflects on the varied practices and narratives in Beckettian intermedial ecologies, offering new insights into the connections between Beckett and the Anthropocene in the terrains of translation, adaptation, performance and the visual arts. Chapters also explore the potential of Happy Days (1961) for ecological thought and the role it has taken in ecodramaturgy. Short bursts of writing, entitled 'Coups de gong,' are woven throughout the volume and testify to the variety of Beckett-inspired local responses to global climate instability.

More in Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights

Romeo and Juliet : No Fear Shakespeare Series - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
Macbeth : No Fear Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
Twelve Angry Men : Penguin Classics - Reginald Rose

Not Supplied By Publisher

$23.75

Twelfth Night : No Fear Shakespeare Series - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare) : No Fear Shakespeare - John Crowther
Documentary Theatre and Performance : Forms of Drama - Andy Lavender
Aristophanes : Wasps - Craig  Jendza

RRP $140.00

$104.90

25%
OFF
Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation : A Practical Guide - Alys  Daroy
Othello : No Fear Shakespeare Series - William Shakespeare

RRP $12.99

$10.95

16%
OFF
So Long, Wee Moon : Modern Plays - Martin Travers
Pygmalion : Penguin Classics - George Bernard Shaw

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
A Midsummer Night's Dream : The Oxford Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
King Lear : Cambridge School Shakespeare - William Shakespeare