Samuel Beckett
Poet, Playwright, and Author
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Waiting for Godot Confirms Dates for West End Return; Matthew Kelly to Join CastThe previously reported return of the hit production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with Ian McKellen reprising his performance as Estragon opposite new-to-the-company Roger Rees as Vladimir, has now... In this article: Waiting for Godot, Sean Mathias, Matthew Kelly, Broadway, London, Samuel Beckett, Ian McKellen, and Williamstown Theatre Festival |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 1 day ago
Books of the year
...that Humbert Humbert would not have scorned. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst By turns vulnerable, arch and wryly funny, The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-40 (CUP, GBP30) records one of the 20th century's most distinctive voices working out its...
In this article: Penguin
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | 2 days ago
Timothy Bateson
...aged 83, established his reputation as a fine character actor with the single, incomprehensible speech of the pathetic Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Published: 6:16PM GMT 26 Nov 2009 Timothy Bateson as Lord Verisopht in...
In this article: Timothy Bateson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Kenneth Tynan, and Law Society
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | 3 days ago
The Best of Brit Lit
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Samuel Beckett, Colm Toibin, Hilary Mantel, and Roberto Bolano top this year's list of the best books. Wolf Hall: A Novel. By Hilary Mantel. 560 pages.
In this article: The Daily Beast, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin, Iraq War, The Times Literary Supplement, Peter Stothard, Roberto Bolano, Tony Blair, and Downing Street
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Times Online | 3 days ago
Books of the Year 2009
...that the book lingered for a long time on Israel's bestseller list. SEAMUS HEANEY The most bracing read was The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940 (Cambridge), a portrait of the Dubliner as a young European with a hard gemlike gift for...
In this article: Roberto Bolano, William Golding, and John Updike
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Kansas City Star | 4 days ago
The Road'
...that director John Hillcoat creates here. Based on Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel, this is a frontier story where Zane Grey meets Samuel Beckett. The living envy the dead yet they carry on because they must. </p><p>"Cannibalism is the great...
In this article: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Viggo Mortensen, The Road, John Hillcoat, Robert Duvall, Suicide, Cattle, John Milton, and Zane Grey
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | 4 days ago
The Big Question: Does Charlie Chaplin merit a museum in his honour, and what is his legacy?
...on the highest quality of product, even when the industry was in its infancy. His influence on modernist writers (such as Samuel Beckett) as well as film-makers, his blending of comedy, slapstick, pathos, surrealism and visual trickery...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Lita Grey, James Agee, City Lights, Buster Keaton, Lake Geneva, and London
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The Press and Journal | 5 days ago
Callow stars in Director's Cut
...critical acclaim for his roles in theatre, opera and television. This year he starred as Pozzo in a UK tour of writer Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, alongside Sir Ian McKellan and Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart. Alan Marcus, head...
In this article: Simon Callow, Aberdeen University, King's College, Waiting for Godot, A Room with a View, Patrick Stewart, and Star Trek
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Playbill.com | 5 days ago
Waiting for Godot to Return to the West End; Rees Will Wait With McKellen
The hit production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot that ended a sell-out run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in August 2009 is to return to the same address in the New Year, but with Ian McKellen's Estragon newly joined by Roger Rees...
In this article: Roger Rees, Ian McKellen, Waiting for Godot, Patrick Stewart, Haymarket, Theatre Royal, A Man of No Importance, and Williamstown Theatre Festival
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Playbill.com | 6 days ago
Robin Williams Reveals Weapons of Self-Destruction at NYC's Town Hall Nov. 23
...actor may be remembered for his performance as Estragon opposite Steve Martin's Vladimir in the Mike Nichols-directed production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Williams was seen on Broadway in Robin Williams: Live on Broadway...
In this article: Robin Williams, Trademark, Academy Award, Surgery, Waiting for Godot, New York City, Daniel Craig, HBO, and Steve Martin
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L.A. Times - National News | November 20, 2009
Theater project holds a mirror up to the recession
...drama to Thomas Bradshaw's absurdly realistic "New York Living." Only "Unum," by Will Eno, who was once described as "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation," takes an encyclopedic stab at the issue -- in all of 20 minutes. A...
In this article: Adam Rapp, Flea Theater, New York, The Guys, and Recession
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Description from Wikipedia:
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist. As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd." As such, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his "writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. He died in Paris of respiratory problems.
- Name At Birth:
- Samuel Barclay Beckett
- Also Known As:
- Andrew Belis (Recent Irish Poetry)
- Birth Date:
- April 13, 1906
- Birthplace:
- Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
- Death Date:
- December 22, 1989
- Place of Death:
- Paris, France
- Nationality:
- Irish
- Occupation:
- novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist
- Period:
- Modernism
- Influenced By:
- Dante Alighieri, Arnold Geulincx, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Jean Racine, Arthur Schopenhauer, J.M Synge, W.B. Yeats, Seán O'Casey, Oscar Wilde, Marquis de Sade, René Descartes, Laurence Sterne, Democritus, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, Bishop Berkeley
- Influenced:
- Edward Albee, Paul Auster, John Banville, Donald Barthelme, William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Marina Carr, J. M. Coetzee, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Václav Havel, Eugene Ionesco, B. S. Johnson, Sarah Kane, Derek Mahon, David Mamet, Bruce Nauman, Edna O'Brien, Jamie O'Neill, Damian Pettigrew, Harold Pinter, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard
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