Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Description
Using Jacques Derrida's 1995 study, Archive Fever, Weiss examines how Samuel Beckett's Come and Go and Footfalls stage the failed acts of archiving. In both plays, memories are either unknown or not named. Either way, without being named they cannot be collected, catalogued or made public. Despite this, the women haunting his plays seem struck by archive fever. Ultimately, Beckett stages the tension between the desire to remain silent with the desire to archive.
Citation Information
Weiss, Katherine. 2017. Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring the ‘it’ in Beckett’s Theatre. New England Theatre Journal. Vol.28 81. ISSN: 1050-9720 ISBN: 69
Copyright Statement
This document was published with permission by the journal. It was originally published by the New England Theatre Journal.