A new collection of essays edited by Mary Bryden Beckett and Animals, ed. Mary Bryden Beckett and AnimalsEdited by Mary BrydenUniversity of Reading 20% discount if ordered before 28 February 2014Order online at http://www.cambridge.org/beckett14or enter the discount code beckett14 at the checkout The animals that appear in Samuel Beckett’s work are diverse and unpredictable. They…

An announcement from the Samuel Beckett Society Dear Friends and Colleagues For those of you who will be travelling to the pleasant climate of Chicago to attend the MLA Convention next week (9-12 January), may I draw your attention to the two panels organised by the Samuel Beckett Society: Samuel Beckett’s Fiction and the Vulnerability…

John Gallagher talks to Andy Wimbush [Source] via apieceofmonologue.com

University of Warwick · 28 July – 1 August, 2014 Samuel Beckett in London, taking a break with the San Quentin Drama Workshop. Left to right: David Hare, Alan Mandell, Samuel Beckett and friend. ‘Call for Papers’Samuel Beckett Working GroupUniversity of Warwick28 July – 1 August, 2014 The Samuel Beckett Working Group (SBWG) will be…

Academic Conference · University of Reading, 4-5 April 2014 Design: Rhys Tranter. Photograph: Reg Lancaster/Getty Images From the University of Reading: Staging Beckett: Constructing Performance HistoriesMinghella Building, University of Reading, 4-5 April 2014Call for Papers Staging Beckett is a three year research collaboration between the universities of Chester, Reading, and the Victoria & Albert Museum,…

Ian McKellen (Estragon) and Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) take time off in New York City Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, wearing the familiar Beckettian bowlers via Ian McKellen’s Twitter page

Rare photograph from the BBC radio production of Eh Joe Siân Phillips and Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Michael Peto via babylonwales.blogspot.co.uk

Benedict Nightingale reevaluates the Nobel Prize winning dramatist Samuel Beckett. Steve Schapiro / Corbis From The Times (link via Lisa Dwan): ‘New productions of the playwright’s work force a reassessment in which some compare him with Bach and Mozart’ [Read More]

Benedict Nightingale (The Times) lists his favourites Billie Whitelaw, pictured with Beckett. John Haynes/AP From The Times (link via Lisa Dwan): ‘They may be short but they’re powerful: the most memorable performances of the work of Samuel Beckett’ [Read More]

Notebook containing an early French draft of The Lost Ones posted by Washington University Manuscript page of Samuel Beckett’s Le dépeupleur Images via Washington University. via apieceofmonologue.com