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Samuel Beckett Links
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Samuel Beckett
Internet Broadway Database: Samuel Beckett
List of Broadway productions of Samuel Beckett’s works. Contains links to each work, with information on theatres, actors and production credits.
Irish Writers Online -- Beckett
Brief biographies of Irish writers with information on their own works.
Journal of Beckett Studies
Web site for
Florida
State
University ’s Journal of Beckett Studies. This site contains summaries of current and past issues and reading links for Beckett.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)
Information on Beckett and his works. Some portions of this Web site are under construction.
Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources
A comprehensive collection of links to online essays, reviews and various other materials related to the works of Samuel Beckett.
Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Book review by Paul West on Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989, edited and with an Introduction and Notes by S.E. Gontarski.
The Beckett Collection
This collection is housed at the University of Reading, England. It contains over 1201 documents on Samuel Beckett.
The Beckett International Foundation
The Beckett International Foundation was set up as a charitable trust in 1988, with the University of Reading, England, as Trustee. Housed in the Reading University Library, the Foundation administers and coordinates the academic and bibliographical resources of the Beckett Collection, now the largest and most extensive collection of Beckett materials in the world. Almost all of the Foundation’s manuscript resources were donated by Samuel Beckett himself, some of them being inscribed by the author to this effect. Others have been donated by Beckett’s family, friends, publishers and researchers.
The Samuel Beckett Centre
Since its establishment in 1592,
Trinity
College has educated some of the greatest dramatists in world theatre from Congreve and Goldsmith to Synge and Beckett. In 1984, Trinity launched
Ireland ’s first university drama department. The School of Drama now offers a full range of academic degrees from B.A. to Ph.D., as well as an innovative three-year actor training program in collaboration with the National Theatre (the Abbey), and a taught postgraduate course in Irish Theatre and Film. The
School of
Drama is housed in the purpose-built Samuel Beckett Centre, which opened in 1992. Within the Centre are the Samuel Beckett Theatre, a 208 seat black box performance space, Players Theatre, the studio theatre of Trinity’s student drama society, a Dance Studio/rehearsal space, seminar rooms and offices.
The Samuel Beckett Interviews
Recently unearthed fragments of Samuel Beckett's contributions to biographical journalism. In English and French.
The Beckett Society
The Samuel Beckett Society is an international organization of scholars, students, directors, actors and others who share an interest in the work of Samuel Beckett. The Society provides opportunities for members to meet and exchange information, including two sessions each year at the MLA. This site also contains a table of contents for some issues of The Beckett Circle as well as calls for papers.
Why Samuel Beckett joined the (French) Resistance
An article by James Knowlson from Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett discussing why Samuel Beckett joined the French Resistance. |
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