Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett

All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.Burkman, Katherine H. is the author of 'Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett' with ISBN 9780838632994 and ISBN 0838632998.