Beckett, Samuel

Okamuro, Minako. "Alchemical dances in Beckett and Yeats." In After Beckett / d apres Beckett (Samuel Beckett TodayZAujourd hui Vol. 14), eds. Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans and Bruno Clement, 87-104. Amsterdam, New York Rodopi, 2004. 

Beckett, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Vol. I. Ed. Martha Dow Fehsen-feld, Lois More Overbeck, in association with Dan Gunn and George Craig. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

James Knowlson, Damned to Fame The Life of Samuel Beckett (London Bloomsbury, 1996) pp. 57, 385. 

Samuel Beckett didn t often reveal his literary influences, yet his admiration for the writing of John Millington Synge is a matter of record. As Beckett s official biographer James Knowlson wrote in an early essay on the coimec-tions between Synge and Beckett ... 

Roy Pierce-Jones is a Senior Lectmer in Drama at the University of Worcester. He has pubhshed articles on screen adaptations and Shakespeare in performance. He is cmrently corrqrleting articles on Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and John Osborne, and has recently written on the polemical plays of Dario Fo. 

Samuel Beckett saw his work in a similar way and as in contrast to that of his contemporary, James Joyce, who sought to embellish and add to his writing ... 

Knowleson, J. (1996). Dammed to fame The life cf Samuel Beckett. London Bloomsbury... 

See Vincent Cheng, Joyce, Race and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1995) John McCourt, ed., James Joyce in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett Anatomy of a Literary Revolution, trans. Gregory Elliott (London Verso, 2006) Kim McMullen, Flann O Brien s Postmodern Dialogue with Irish Tradition, Novel 27 (1993) 62-84 and Gregory Dobbins, Constitutional Laziness and the Novel Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O Brien s At Swim Two Birds, Novel 42 (2009) 86-108. 

For discussion see Megan Quigley, Justice for the Tllstarred Punster Samuel Beckett s Alfred Peron s Revisions of Anna Lyvia Pluratself , James Joyce Quarterly 41 (2004) 469-87. 

See Brown, Ireland, Modernism, and the 1930s, p. 36 Ann Beer, Beckett s Bilingualism, The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett, ed. John Piling (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 216 and Brown, Beckett and Irish... 

Society, Samuel Beckett loo Years, ed. Christopher Murray (Duhlin New Island, 2006), p. 19. 

In 2009, the city of Dublin opened the Samuel Beckett Bridge, named after the famous Irish writer, and designed by Calavatra. This bridge is certainly a picturesque structure, having a thin, curved tower described as a forward-leaning, tubular curved spar (Figure 3.11). 

FIGURE 3.11 Samuel Beckett Bridge by Calavatra. (Courtesy of Charles Seim.)... 

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