The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Authored by Society past-president Patrick Bixby, Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life will explore the writer’s ‘enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.’ By drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s influential theories of…
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The second issue of the Beckett Review, the Society’s official publication, is now available. The Winter 2025 edition contains a wide variety of news, reviews and items of general interest to all scholars and fans of the writer. This issue sees the first in a proposed series of peer-reviewed essays from early-career scholars: ‘Three Versions…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 34 no. 2 (September 2025) is now available. This issue includes contributions from articles by Reuben Slade, Imane Aoulad Ben Ali, Michael D’Arcy, C.J. Ackerley, and John Pilling, as well as an intrview by Galina Kiryushina, and reviews by Leslie Hill, Jane Coyle, Katya Gosteva, and…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been announced. Beckett and Leopardi is co-authored by Peter Boxall and Peter Nicholls aims to read Beckett in conjunction with Italian author Giacomo Leopardi arguing ‘that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers’ pessimism’. Boxall and…
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Anthem Press has just announced the publication of Beckett and Broadcasting: On Works of Samuel Beckett for and in Radio and Television by Clas Zilliacus. This well-known, foundational work in the field was completed in 1976 but received only limited circulation at the time. Now presented with a new introduction by the author and an…
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A fascinating new publication from Methuen which will be of interest to all Beckettians is to be launched later this month. The final book from late and hugely respected scholar Ruby Cohn, this volume is co-edited by current renowned Beckett scholars Daniela Caselli and Hannah Simpson. Titled Glancing at Dramatists’ Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori…
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The publication has been announced by Bloomsbury of the monograph Staging Beckett in London. Authored by Matthew McFrederick, Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, it completes the Staging Beckett series which also includes …in Great Britain, and …in Ireland and Northern Ireland which were edited by…
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The latest edition of Beckettiana, the Spanish language publication devoted to the author’s work and edited in Buenos Aires, is now available to download. Volume 21, co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara, contains an impressive collection of artciles and reviews from a varied list of scholars including Patrick Bixby, Everett Frost, Manuel…
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Announced this week is a new publication from the Bloomsbury imprint. Taking its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship Beckett and Nature, we are told is ‘focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, going beyond them into a questioning of the very concepts of “Nature” and “the natural.” It examines one of the most…
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Free Download available here until 21 July 2025 The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been announced. Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett is authored by Emilie Morin, and is a study of Beckett’s long-time partner and wife Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Morin points out, little has been written about Suzanne probably…
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