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Biography

Name: Samuel Beckett
Birth Date: April 13, 1906
Death Date: December 22, 1989
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, playwright, poet

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Biography of Samuel Beckett
1,459 words, approx. 5 pages
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), the Irish novelist, playwright, and poet who became French by adoption, was one of the most original and important writers of the century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. Samuel Beckett stood apart from the...
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Biography of Samuel Beckett
10,322 words, approx. 34 pages
Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot has influenced several generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world, was a dramatist who considered himself a much better novelist. He thought of his plays as diversions undertaken at times...
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Biography of Samuel (Barclay) Beckett
10,115 words, approx. 34 pages
Samuel Beckett is an Irishman who has lived in France since 1938 and who has written much of his drama and fiction in French. The phenomenal success of his play En attendant Godot (1952; published in English as Waiting for Godot, 1954) has made him...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Samuel Beckett Information
7,166 words, approx. 24 pages
Samuel Beckett 3 Occasional Pieces.jpg}} | Pseudonym Andrew Belis ( Recent Irish Poetry ) [1] Born 13 April 1906 ( 1906-04-13 ) Foxrock , Dublin , Ireland Died 22 December 1989 (aged 83) Paris , France Occupation novelist, short story writer,...


News and Journals
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Bottom: Behind the Scenes
10/3/2007: 374 words, approx. 1 pages
Beckett and ‘Bottom’Unlikely as it may sound, the core inspiration of ‘Bottom’ was not the ‘The Young Ones’ (in which Rik and Ade starred) or any similarly crude comedy. In fact, they were most inspired by ‘Waiting for Godot’, Samuel Beckett 's classic play...
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Beyond Den: A LeslieGrantham Quiz
10/8/2007: 354 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:His telly reputation is that of a no-nonsense tough bloke, but the real-life Leslie is a connoisseur of what?a) Art (0)b) Wine (1)c) Antiques (0)d) Single-malt whisky (0)Question 2 of 10:Which of the following shows did a pre-Den Leslie have a role...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Daniel Katz
13,653 words, approx. 46 pages
In the following essay, Katz studies Watt as a transition between Beckett's life in Ireland and England and his move to France as well as between his early conventionally composed works and his later experimental writing.
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Critical Essay by Marguerite Tassi
11,442 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Tassi suggests options for staging Shakespearian plays in light of Beckett's absurdist theater.
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Critical Essay by Eva Metman
10,507 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Metman explores the different embodiments of God, treatment of women, and the depiction of the human condition in Beckett's earlier dramatic works.
 


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