Reviews

"Bravo for a virtuoso performance, a real tour de force."--Edward Beckett
"The strength and importance of Beckett's acoustic materiality and performative tonality has never been so forcefully and so aptly analyzed before; we owe Brater a wealth of suggestions that must influence future readings of Beckett's works."--The Beckett Circle
"The Drama in the Text is a searching, sometimes lyrical work of scholarship and a lasting, original contribution to Beckett studies. The sections on the late trilogies are deep, lovely, and brilliant. Brater gives Beckett life on every page."--Ruby Cohn, University of California, Davis
"Brater makes an important and innovative contribution to Beckett studies."--Theatre Journal
"The Drama in the Text proves to be yet another significant achievement....Brater is an extremely engaging critic. His analyses, in this and the preceding volumes on Beckett, are immensely insightful, offering not only a staggering wealth of information (he is certainly among the best resources available) about a given text, but a most pleasurable-in-itself- key to the `pleasures of the text.'"--New Novel Review
"Bravo for a virtuoso performance, a real tour de force."--Edward Beckett
"The strength and importance of Beckett's acoustic materiality and performative tonality has never been so forcefully and so aptly analyzed before; we owe Brater a wealth of suggestions that must influence future readings of Beckett's works."--The Beckett Circle
"The Drama in the Text is a searching, sometimes lyrical work of scholarship and a lasting, original contribution to Beckett studies. The sections on the late trilogies are deep, lovely, and brilliant. Brater gives Beckett life on every page."--Ruby Cohn, University of California, Davis
"Brater makes an important and innovative contribution to Beckett studies."--Theatre Journal
"The Drama in the Text proves to be yet another significant achievement....Brater is an extremely engaging critic. His analyses, in this and the preceding volumes on Beckett, are immensely insightful, offering not only a staggering wealth of information (he is certainly among the best resources available) about a given text, but a most pleasurable-in-itself- key to the `pleasures of the text.'"--New Novel Review
"Reading it thoroughly is richly to re-encounter Beckett's texts anew. The insights come thick and fast, and you have to stay with Brater every step of the way."--
ournal of Beckett Studies