S.E. Gontarski – The Samuel Beckett Society

New Publication: Beckett’s Co-authors: Rewriting Waiting for Godot by S.E. Gontarski

A new publication from S.E. Gontarski has been announced by Edinburgh University Press in their Other Becketts series. Titled Beckett’s Co-authors the work, we are told, ‘takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett’s first professionally produced play, Waiting…

New in Cambridge Elements: Bad Godots by S.E. Gontarski

The latest publication in the Cambridge Elements series is Bad Godots: Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel and Other Interventions by veteran Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. According to its abstract, this volume ‘focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.…