New digital instalment places pioneering work of fiction under the magnifying glass The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innomable / The Unnamable (BDMP2). The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) is pleased to announce the publication of the genetic edition of L’Innommable / The Unnamable, edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Shane Weller; technical realization: Vincent Neyt. This…

Trinity College Dublin · 10-16 August 2014 Design: Rhys Tranter The 2014 Samuel Beckett Summer School runs from 10–16 August 2014. Applications now available from our website. Preliminary list of speakers: Elizabeth Barry Gerald Dawe Lois More Overbeck Laura Salisbury Anthony Uhlmann Dirk Van Hulle A Roundtable discussion, ‘Beckett beyond the Humanities’, chaired by Jonathan…

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