The latest issue of the Journal of Becket Studies is now available. A special issue, guest-edited by Georgina Nugent, it seeks to add to what it describes as the ‘increasingly insistent reassessment of the role of women within and without of Beckett’s œuvre, a movement spearheaded by Linda Ben-Zvi and Mary Bryden’s ground-breaking respective studies Women in Beckett:…
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A brand new Greek translation of Beckett’s unperformed play Eleutheria has just been published by Oblik Editions of Thessaloniki. The translation is the work of noted Beckett scholar Anastasia Deligianni, who also contributes a thorough and scholarly introduction to the book. This particularly handsome paperback volume has a wonderful cover illustration by Nicole Arnold and…
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A significant publication in the field of Beckett Studies in Spanish comes from Atuel Ediciones in Buenos Aires. El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett is a major new work by Beckett Society board member Lucas Margarit which offers a wide-ranging, eminently readable and intellectually satisfying, this book will attract new…
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The latest title in the Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been published and is available to download here free of charge for a limited period. Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent offers ‘the first extended comparative study of Gertrude Stein’s role in the development of Beckett’s aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the…
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Among the clutch of new titles in Beckett Studies comes Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe from Palgrave Macmillan. Edited by Michiko Tsushima, Yoshiki Tajiri, Mariko Hori Tanaka, the volume promises to be ‘a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and…
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Samuel Beckett’s Poetry. Eds James Brophy & William Davies. Cambridge UP. Last month saw the publication of what is described as ‘the first book-length study of Beckett’s complete poetry’. Editors James Brophy and William Davies have gathered together contributions from an impressive list of scholars to provide a book which is designed for students and…
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Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, remediation, appropriation Coming in February from Manchester University Press is a collection of essays dealing with the numerous and various adaptations of Beckett’s works. Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst and Anna McMullan, the volume is is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. Its pre-publication description promisies a volume…
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The latest title in Cambridge University Press Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form examines and contextualizes the long history of mounting festivals of Beckett’s work in the country of his birth. The summary suggests that the phenomenon of ‘festivalising’ Beckett in Ireland ‘might…
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Unlike Hamm, the editorial team of the Beckett Circle has forgone putting up the holly to bring you the latest issue of its sterling publication. Alongside the usual clutch of performance and book reviews, this issue features a fascinating review essay by Benn Brown on his immersive experience at the Happy Days festival in Enniskillen,…
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The latest edition of The Beckett Circle features a commentary piece by renowned critic Angela Moorjani on the issues surrounding gender cross-casting in Beckett’s productions, prompted by Eleanor Green’s excellent piece in our last issue. Doug Atkinson provides a thoughtful review essay on the completion of Gare St Lazare’s mammoth engagement with How it is…
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