Beckett Studies

“ Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.”

Misc. Resources

 

 

PDFs & LINKS VIDEOS LECTURE NOTES/ Classroom Docs
The Samuel Beckett Society (link)  

School of Life: Beckett

Lecture Slides from a previous program
Samuel Beckett Resources (a messy clearing house of links) Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot Beginning with Beckett 
Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

https://www.beckettarchive.org

 

Beckett on Film: Happy Days

 

Beckett-Murphy, Watt, Philosophy

 

Marjorie Perloff – In Love with Hiding – Beckett’s war  

Beckett on Film: Play

Molloy Part 2 – Silly Map   Preview the document

 

/ ApproachesPreview the document

Per Nykrog, Ruins of the Past-Reading Beckett Intertextually

 

Beckett Documentary: As the Story Was Told Beckett, Late Work and Plays (snippets)
Samuel Beckett, En Attendant Godot (full text in French) Beckett: The 70’s Detective Show  

 

Shira Wolosky, The Negative Way Negated-Beckett’s Texts for Nothing

 

Lisa Dwan on performing Beckett  

 

Beckett on Film: A Piece of Monologue  
 

 

 

Beckett’s “Eh, Joe” w/ Liam Neeson
 

 

 

Beckett on Film: Ohio Impromptu
 

 

 

Pitch n Putt with Joyce and Beckett  
 

 

 

Alan Rickman discussing performing Beckett  
 

 

 

Excerpt from John Hurt’s performance of Krapp’s Last Tape  
 

 

1987 film clip of Beckett talking about the television adaptation of What Where
 

 

 

Andy Wimbush on Beckett and Quietism
 

 

 

Lecture: Derek Attridge “Beckett’s Singularity
 

 

Rick Cluchy on Godot and the San Quentin Prison Drama Workshop
Cooldrinagh, Foxrock, where Beckett was born, grew up

Cooldrinagh

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grJC1yu4KRw

 

  Play: Nacht un Träume (Night and Dreams)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-CZw8PMFY

 

  What Where (TV version of Play + documentary)

What Where

 
 
 
 
 

 

Bill Irwin Irish Rep:

MISC (from prior courses)

Unnamable Reading notes for Week 9

Unnamable Reading Notes for Week 8

Beckett Excerpts – Late Work and Short Plays

…. Lecture — Later work and aesthetics

Notes : Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer

Beckett, Detective