A multi-award-winning author will set out to create a new piece of creative work inspired by Samuel Beckett after being confirmed as the University of Reading’s first Beckett Creative Fellow.
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The Beckett Circle (Autumn 2017)
Inside the latest issue: Authorised Beckett biographer James Knowlson shares previously unpublished insights into Beckett’s busy routine; Rodney Sharkey recounts his time collaborating with prison inmates on Endgame and Waiting for Godot; Hannah Simpson talks to actress Jess Thom about her recent production of Not I, where Thom reflects on how her experiences with Tourette’s syndrome inform her performance as Mouth; Jonathan Heron pays tribute to the late Rosemary Pountney with an account of the End/Lessness project; Zoe Gosling attends an innovative performance and panel centring on the late prose text, Company; and Derval Tubridy attends an evening of Beckett and contemporary art hosted by The Wallace Collection.
Read MoreNew Issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies
We are pleased to announce that the new issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies (26.1) has now been published. The issue contains a special dossier entitled ‘Post-Archival Beckett: Genre, Process, Value’, guest edited by Paul Sheehan. We attach a Table of Contents for your information.
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Meet the New President of the Samuel Beckett Society
Daniela Caselli shares her fascination with Beckett’s writing, and what she sees as the next step for the Society
Read MoreAnthony Cronin, 1928-2016
Poet, critic, and author of Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, has passed away aged 88
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The Beckett Circle: Autumn 2016 Issue Now Online
Edited by Feargal Whelan and Rhys Tranter
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Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui has a new format
Announcement to the Beckett Community
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On elections and panel proposals
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