Gender And Power Relations In Samuel Beckett's Theatre

The feminist debate about theatrical and televisual audience pleasure (who gets it and how) has opened up a territory of discussion concerning different sources of power and authority within these media. In this study I investigate two different kinds of power interactions: The relationships between the characters within the texts of Beckett’s plays and also those which occur between the lookers (the audience) in the auditorium and the looked at on stage (the actors).