1st Edition

Beckett on File

Edited By Virginia Cooke Copyright 1985
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1985, assembles essential facts on Samuel Beckett and makes vital but elusive information available. It contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer’s plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews, and most importantly, a selection of Beckett’s own comments on their work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries. Other features... Read more

1. A Brief Chronology  2. The Plays  2.1. Waiting for Godot  2.2. All That Fall  2.3. Endgame  2.4. Act Without Words I  2.5. Krapp’s Last Tape  2.6. Rough for Theatre I and II  2.7. Embers  2.8. Act Without Words II  2.9. Rough for Radio I and II  2.10. Happy Days  2.11. Words and Music  2.12. Play  2.13. Cascando  2.14. Film  2.15. Come and Go  2.16. Eh Joe  2.17. Not I  2.18. That Time  2.19. Footfalls  2.20. Ghost Trio  2.21. ‘…but the clouds…’  2.22. A Piece of Monologue  2.23. Rockaby  2.24. Ohio Impromptu  2.25. Quad  2.26. Catastrophe  2.27. Nacht and Träume  2.28. What Where  3. Non-Dramatic Writing  3.1. Prose in Performance  3.2. Fiction  3.3. Other Works  4. The Writer on His Work  5.1. A Select Bibliography  5.2. Full-Length Studies  5.3. Articles and Chapters in Books

Biography

Virginia Cooke