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...

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...

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...

THE DEATH of Samuel Beckett last Saturday at age 83 marks an epoch that made "theater of the absurd" a hallmark of the contemporary stage. But however significant the event, death cannot seem like much of a departure for the reclusive creator of "Waiting...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Samuel Beckett: Biography and Commentary Samuel Beckett's importance is neatly summed up in the official statement made by the Swedish Academy when it awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969: Beckett has exposed the misery of man in our...

The British Library has acquired the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, including his correspondence with leading figures in theater and literature.The library paid $2.24 million for the archive, which includes Pinter's collection of play scripts which has been on loan to the...

Tony-nominated director Deborah Warner and longtime collaborating actress Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies) will be bringing a "far from conventional" production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days to Brooklyn Academy of Music starting Jan. 8 (check here for tickets), according to Jason...

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.

In the following essay, Tassi suggests options for staging Shakespearian plays in light of Beckett's absurdist theater.

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.

In "Krapp's Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett, an alcoholic man, age 69, reflects on his wasted life of drinking and failed relationships.