Samuel Beckett's Self-referential Drama - Hardcover

Samuel Beckett's plays refer primarily to themselves. Through this high degree of medium-awareness the plays refer back to the playwright's artistic self-consciousness and extend an invitation for an authentic dialogue with real people in the audience. In this book, the author aims to offer a new approach to the so-called solipsistic approach to artistic self-reference. He provides a philosophical analysis of the "Three I's" - the "I" of the author, the "I" of the theatre as a medium with its self-referential techniques and the "I" of the recipient spectator or reader. He also deals with the drama from the point of view of the actual and practical modes of theatrical expression such as movement and space, lighting and stage properties. Shimon Levy has also written "Aspects of Identity".