Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T00:08:06.400Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

Claudia Olk
Claudia Olk
Affiliation:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Get access

Summary

Restlessness is a resistance to finality. Shakespeare and Beckett were restless writers. ‘Parfois tu sais, […] c’est pire de ne pas écrire que d’écrire’,1 Beckett told Raymond Federman in one of their last conversations. The necessity to write that is accompanied by a profound scepticism about the success story of an enlightened, humanist modernity is a stance shared by both Beckett and Shakespeare. Written on the edges of modernity, their works create and reflect on the very thresholds they represent. They articulate a restlessness between representation and what happens when representation becomes impossible.

Keywords

StoppardPinterCarson
Type
Chapter
Information
Shakespeare and Beckett , pp. 209 - 215
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Conclusion
  • Claudia Olk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
  • Book: Shakespeare and Beckett
  • Online publication: 19 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082402.009
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Conclusion
  • Claudia Olk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
  • Book: Shakespeare and Beckett
  • Online publication: 19 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082402.009
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Conclusion
  • Claudia Olk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
  • Book: Shakespeare and Beckett
  • Online publication: 19 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082402.009
Available formats
×