Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide, Paperback - John Fletcher

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principa...

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principa...

Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel's major work gives ...

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? The Faber Critical Guide to Harold Pinter gives ...

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected P...

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed t...

'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated t...

This volume completes the publication of this series of notebooks, the plays in question being Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Footfalls, That Time and ...

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Profess...

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . .] Well anyway - this man Show...

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1...

The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, ...

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of hi...

A novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeat...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift he...

Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, f...

New edited by J.C.C. Mays.

Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Becket...

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production o...

As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles...

'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks T...

(Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't ...

Intangible things, traps in the mind, that voice we hear, the stop-start understanding, the ongoing bewilderment, the fear.' Keith Ridgeway George,...

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941–1956 - Samuel Beckett

Reducere. The complete, critically acclaimed Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of l...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Litera...

Reducere. In "Happy Days, " Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person...

Reducere. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Wa...

Reducere. The biography of Samuel Beckett, the writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969, who died in December 1989. He is the author of Wa...

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett that covers key topics including Beckett's treatment of human emotion, the importan...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

New comprehensive editions, with illustrated introductions to the historical, critical and performance history of each of the plays, with textual a...

A dynamic, relevant and exciting history of the 1970s. Includes vivid interviews with many of the leading participants, from Ted Heath to Jack Jone...

Reducere. Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncon...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

Reducere. Collected Poems in English and French, Paperback

Reducere. "It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life "is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing"; it is something else to encounter the ide...