The Letters of Samuel Beckett
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We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.
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More recently processed archival material adding to the production histories of Samuel Beckett in Ireland. This from Galloglass theatre company archive & production of Happy Days, Irish national tour. 1992.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
More recently processed archival material adding to the production histories of Samuel Beckett in Ireland. This from Galloglass theatre company archive & production of Happy Days, Irish national tour. 1992.
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My review of Beckett’s Children by Michael Coffey, an adoption memoir that also ponders Samuel Beckett and Susan Howe’s connections, is in this week’s TLS @thetls.bsky.social
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Claims of a family resemblance between two writers
After retiring as co-editorial director of Publisher’s Weekly in 2014, Michael Coffey read almost nothing but books by or about Samuel Beckett for three
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February 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My review of Beckett’s Children by Michael Coffey, an adoption memoir that also ponders Samuel Beckett and Susan Howe’s connections, is in this week’s TLS @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
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Day 3in the Wilderness and another Happy Day for Winnie.
Come and see Beckett’s Happy Days at Arcola Theatre,Dalston 7pm today and tomorrow.
Come and see Beckett’s Happy Days at Arcola Theatre,Dalston 7pm today and tomorrow.
December 13, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Day 3in the Wilderness and another Happy Day for Winnie.
Come and see Beckett’s Happy Days at Arcola Theatre,Dalston 7pm today and tomorrow.
Come and see Beckett’s Happy Days at Arcola Theatre,Dalston 7pm today and tomorrow.
While we wait for Bill & Ted’s version, Aasif Mandvi & Rainn Wilson’s Godot gets a terrific early review in LA: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi lead a 'Godot' that’s well worth the wait
Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi star in the Geffen Playhouse's new production of Samuel Becektt's absurdist classic 'Waiting for Godot.'
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November 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM
While we wait for Bill & Ted’s version, Aasif Mandvi & Rainn Wilson’s Godot gets a terrific early review in LA: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
Index to Samuel Beckett Letters
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
January 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
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Hello everyone! We are happy to be here, talking about all things Samuel Beckett (but especially his correspondence).
September 6, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Hello everyone! We are happy to be here, talking about all things Samuel Beckett (but especially his correspondence).
London Sinfonietta have announced "Refracted Sound," a Beckett-focused programme on Friday, 29 November 2024 at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall: Beckett's Quad I & II and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/ref...
REFRACTED SOUND | London Sinfonietta
Written shortly before the composer's death, Morton Feldman's expansive For Samuel Beckett is a meditatively shifting work, in which tiny differences between endless rhythmic and harmonic permutations...
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September 4, 2024 at 7:25 PM
London Sinfonietta have announced "Refracted Sound," a Beckett-focused programme on Friday, 29 November 2024 at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall: Beckett's Quad I & II and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/ref...
We recently found an online version of "Waiting for Godot in San Quentin," a short documentary of the 1988 San Quentin Godot production featuring an all-inmate cast.
Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith.
mediaburn.org/video/godot-...
Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith.
mediaburn.org/video/godot-...
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin - Media Burn Archive
A fascinating version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, produced by an all-inmate cast in San Quentin maximum-security prison. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produ...
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July 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM
We recently found an online version of "Waiting for Godot in San Quentin," a short documentary of the 1988 San Quentin Godot production featuring an all-inmate cast.
Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith.
mediaburn.org/video/godot-...
Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith.
mediaburn.org/video/godot-...
As part of our efforts to inventory media, we have introduced our student workers to VHS and audio tapes and showed them how to operate a stereo.
If anyone needs us, we will be in our trashcans.
If anyone needs us, we will be in our trashcans.
July 17, 2024 at 8:02 PM
As part of our efforts to inventory media, we have introduced our student workers to VHS and audio tapes and showed them how to operate a stereo.
If anyone needs us, we will be in our trashcans.
If anyone needs us, we will be in our trashcans.
On the heels of #Bloomsday, did you know that you can use our Index to search all the mentions of things related to Joyce in Beckett's publicly archived letters? Simply put "Joyce" in as a keyword search, apply filters, and off you go!
Here's a screen of what he was reading:
Here's a screen of what he was reading:
June 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
On the heels of #Bloomsday, did you know that you can use our Index to search all the mentions of things related to Joyce in Beckett's publicly archived letters? Simply put "Joyce" in as a keyword search, apply filters, and off you go!
Here's a screen of what he was reading:
Here's a screen of what he was reading:
Have you found yourself wishing that there was a charming artist residency in France where you could contemplate Beckett's works and legacy? Let us introduce you to the Atelier Samuel Beckett from Gare St. Lazare Ireland:
Atelier Samuel Beckett — Gare St Lazare Ireland
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June 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Have you found yourself wishing that there was a charming artist residency in France where you could contemplate Beckett's works and legacy? Let us introduce you to the Atelier Samuel Beckett from Gare St. Lazare Ireland:
Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
Index to Samuel Beckett Letters
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
January 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
Today in the Irish Times, Dr. Barry Houlihan talks Krapp's Last Tape:
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
Krapp’s Last Tape: The acting greats who have taken on Samuel Beckett’s one-man play
Stephen Rea is about to join an illustrious line-up that includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Patrick Magee
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January 10, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Today in the Irish Times, Dr. Barry Houlihan talks Krapp's Last Tape:
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
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My Special Issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies on "Beckett's Women Contemporaries" is open access all January. Please check it out for some brilliant essays on Barbara Bray, Louise Bourgeois, Marguerite Duras, Maria Irene Fornes & Djuna Barnes xx
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January 8, 2024 at 12:01 PM
My Special Issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies on "Beckett's Women Contemporaries" is open access all January. Please check it out for some brilliant essays on Barbara Bray, Louise Bourgeois, Marguerite Duras, Maria Irene Fornes & Djuna Barnes xx
www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/1
www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/1
The Journal of Beckett Studies, through Edinburgh University Press, is offering free access to ALL articles through the end of January:
samuelbeckettsociety.org/2024/01/06/j...
samuelbeckettsociety.org/2024/01/06/j...
Journal of Beckett Studies: Free Access for Month of January
Edinburgh University Press have announced that as part of their literary studies free access campaign the Journal of Beckett Studies will be open to all for the month of January. Access is granted, fr...
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January 8, 2024 at 7:57 PM
The Journal of Beckett Studies, through Edinburgh University Press, is offering free access to ALL articles through the end of January:
samuelbeckettsociety.org/2024/01/06/j...
samuelbeckettsociety.org/2024/01/06/j...
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There's an amendment before the US House of Representatives that would eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which, I don't know, seems like a bad idea. US folks can click through to send a message to their reps asking them to oppose.
URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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November 2, 2023 at 3:59 PM
There's an amendment before the US House of Representatives that would eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which, I don't know, seems like a bad idea. US folks can click through to send a message to their reps asking them to oppose.
We are very close to topping $300 in our #2O36GivingWeek drive with the Emory Alumni Association. Can you help us get there? Funds will go directly to student workers and efforts to preserve and catalog our papers. Find our direct link here: dayofgiving.emory.edu/amb/beckettl...
2O36 Giving Week
Donate to help Emory students flourish!
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November 1, 2023 at 8:05 PM
We are very close to topping $300 in our #2O36GivingWeek drive with the Emory Alumni Association. Can you help us get there? Funds will go directly to student workers and efforts to preserve and catalog our papers. Find our direct link here: dayofgiving.emory.edu/amb/beckettl...
Did you know that since 1990, over 400 students have been a part of the Project? We wouldn't be here without them, so we are partnering with @emoryalumni for #2O36GivingWeek to raise funds so that we can keep working with amazing Emory students as we move into our next phase.
October 30, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Did you know that since 1990, over 400 students have been a part of the Project? We wouldn't be here without them, so we are partnering with @emoryalumni for #2O36GivingWeek to raise funds so that we can keep working with amazing Emory students as we move into our next phase.
The newest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is out! Via the Samuel Beckett Society: "Volume 32, issue 2 contains Contributions from Einat Adar, Conor Carville, Olga Beloborodova and Paul Stewart, as well book and performance reviews."
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October 18, 2023 at 8:44 PM
The newest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is out! Via the Samuel Beckett Society: "Volume 32, issue 2 contains Contributions from Einat Adar, Conor Carville, Olga Beloborodova and Paul Stewart, as well book and performance reviews."
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www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/2
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www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/2
Thanks to Susan Carini for this lovely article about the Project in the Emory Report! We were so touched by everyone who came to celebrate with us. 📜
‘There was so much to share’: A salute to ‘The Letters of Samuel Beckett’ project | Emory Un...
On Sept. 21, delightful memories surfaced of “The Letters of Samuel Beckett,” the acclaimed project advanced by Emory faculty and students since 1985. The project also looks to the digital future ...
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October 11, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Thanks to Susan Carini for this lovely article about the Project in the Emory Report! We were so touched by everyone who came to celebrate with us. 📜
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“That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.” (Samuel Beckett, Molloy)
Hearty congratulations to Jon Fosse, but we would be remiss if we did not share Beckett's "interview" after winning the prize himself.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
Samuel Beckett - "Mute" Interview for Swedish Television - 1969
On October 23, 1969, Samuel Beckett's publisher, Jérôme Lindon, received a telegram from the Swedish Academy informing him that Beckett had been awarded the ...
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October 5, 2023 at 8:22 PM
“That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.” (Samuel Beckett, Molloy)
Hearty congratulations to Jon Fosse, but we would be remiss if we did not share Beckett's "interview" after winning the prize himself.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
Samuel Beckett - "Mute" Interview for Swedish Television - 1969
On October 23, 1969, Samuel Beckett's publisher, Jérôme Lindon, received a telegram from the Swedish Academy informing him that Beckett had been awarded the ...
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Hearty congratulations to Jon Fosse, but we would be remiss if we did not share Beckett's "interview" after winning the prize himself.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.
All are welcome to attend the public launch of "El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett," a collection of essays by Lucas Maragrit.
Saturday 14 October
La Casa de la Lectura, Buenos Aires
18:00
📜
h/t @BeckettSociety
Saturday 14 October
La Casa de la Lectura, Buenos Aires
18:00
📜
h/t @BeckettSociety
October 4, 2023 at 7:19 PM
All are welcome to attend the public launch of "El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett," a collection of essays by Lucas Maragrit.
Saturday 14 October
La Casa de la Lectura, Buenos Aires
18:00
📜
h/t @BeckettSociety
Saturday 14 October
La Casa de la Lectura, Buenos Aires
18:00
📜
h/t @BeckettSociety
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Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.
October 4, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.
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I’m very excited to see this DH-adjacent project launched, which updates the Location Register of Beckett’s Letters with …. a *lot* of metadata. Indispensable for Beckett scholars.
(I also joined the advisory board last week! Or two weeks ago? Time’s weird.)
(I also joined the advisory board last week! Or two weeks ago? Time’s weird.)
Now that the cat is out of the bag (the man is out of the urn?) we can't wait for everyone to see our new site, Chercher. It combines our Location Register with all of the contextual research we've done since the project started in the late 80s. Trust us, you won't be disappointed. 📜
Index to Samuel Beckett Letters
www.chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
October 2, 2023 at 7:08 PM
I’m very excited to see this DH-adjacent project launched, which updates the Location Register of Beckett’s Letters with …. a *lot* of metadata. Indispensable for Beckett scholars.
(I also joined the advisory board last week! Or two weeks ago? Time’s weird.)
(I also joined the advisory board last week! Or two weeks ago? Time’s weird.)