A Politically Committed Kind of Silence. Ireland in Samuel Beckett’s <em>Catastrophe</em>
Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe (1982), which is dedicated to Václav Havel, exemplifies in a direct way the idea of non-violent resistance. It is a short work in which an actor, who is going to appear before an audience under the instruction of a tyrannical director, performs an act of defiance with on...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2017-06-01
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Series: | Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies |
Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7291 |