This is the first biography authorized by Beckett and his estate. Shortly before his death, Beckett chose Knowlson to be his biographer because, in his words, he is "the one who knows my work the best". This biography draws on Knowlson's 20-year friendship with Beckett, more than 100 interviews, and research in dozens of archives--many previously ...
Images of Beckett combines John Haynes' unique repertoire of photographs of Beckett's dramatic opus alongside three newly written essays by Beckett's biographer and friend, James Knowlson. Haynes captures images of Beckett's work in progress and performance and includes hitherto unknown portraits of Beckett himself. Haynes was privileged to be ...
Samuel Beckett, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature, was also famously reclusive. In these intimate interviews conducted by his biographer, James Knowlson, Beckett and his family, friends and contemporaries reveal more of the writer's human side than ever before. Beckett himself talks of his early youth, his friendship with ...
Following "Endgame" and "Krapp's Last Tape", this book looks at Beckett's notebook for "Waiting for Godot". The volume is in part a facsimile of the notebook kept by Beckett for Berlin's Schiller-Theater production in 1975. It contains a full set of directional notes and discloses, section-by-section, a total system that works by repitition and ...
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times.
This volume completes the publication of the facsimiles, with commentary, of the notebooks kept by Beckett when directing productions of his own plays. The notebooks here are for Eh, Joe, Play, Come and Go, That Time, Footfalls and What Where.
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