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Samuel Beckett
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Standard Name: Beckett, Samuel
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, Irish expatriate poet, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, was a major force in international twentieth-century writing and especially theatre. He wrote a high proportion of his works in French, usually doing the translations into English himself. His increasingly death-obsessed absurdity and minimalism are combined with an invincible energy of language, even while the text appears to despair of the efficacy of words.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Shelagh Delaney | SD
wrote her first and most successful play, A Taste of Honey, at the age of nineteen. Published interviews give conflicting reports of her motivation for writing it. One interview quotes her as saying... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Devlin | After writing for television, AD
was drawn to live theatre because of the medium's relative freedom from censorship and its enduring qualities: It is Literature. When you create a character in the theatre you are... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The protagonist of this book, ageing Francesca Stubbs, is employed as an inspector of retirement homes. She and the other characters here, witnessing the ends' of friends' lives and approaching their own, make sense of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Zoë Fairbairns | This time only, ZF
uses a male voice for a coming-of-age story, which holds up its narrator-protagonist to mockery and a kind of despairing sympathy, as it begins with some slight adolescent petulance and becomes... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Meanwhile fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill
, having initially concluded from the reviews that this was a bad play, was astonished at reading the first few lines and knowing that I was in the hands of a... |
| Reception | Sarah Kane | A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett
commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at... |
| Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
| Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Her literary circle in Paris was highly eclectic: the many camps in which she had friends included the Surrealist rump, the incoming Existentialists, and the Communists (who were mostly ex-Surrealists). Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987. 60-1 |
| Textual Production | Ella K. Maillart | A travel book by EKM
(composed in French and first published as Oasis interdites: de Pékin au Cachemire) appeared in English as Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir, translated by Thomas McGreevy
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | |
| Residence | Edna O'Brien | Her cluttered writing room has an arbutus desk, books (many of them signed gifts from their authors), candles, paintings, the faded and fraying tapesty carpet, and images of James Joyce
and Samuel Beckett
presiding at... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
uses books as presiding spirits of her own writing. James Joyce
's image is at one end of the mantelpiece and Samuel Beckett
's at the other. . . . I write by hand... |
| Occupation | Harold Pinter | He acted for this company for a year and learned a lot. He worked his way up in Shakespearean
roles from bit parts to major ones and discovered the writings of Samuel Beckett
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Harold Pinter | Always keen on acting, HP
played the solo protagonist of Beckett
's Krapp's Last Tape in a wheelchair at the Royal Court Upstairs
, in a run that began on 14 October 2006 (because an... |
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