When Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, his longtime companion, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, described it as “a catastrophe,” and the playwright himself refused to show up for ...

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In 1964, the silent film master and the celebrated playwright made a film together. It was Beckett's first movie — and it showed. Notfilm tells... Buster Keaton And Samuel Beckett Walk Into A Movie ...

Death’s shadow frequently sends literary reputation into critical eclipse. Not so the Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett, who has seemed to rise further in our esteem with every year that has passed since ...

A new programme of Samuel Beckett’s work gets underway this ...

“The Literature of the Absurd” is a reflection on prominent authors in the Absurdist tradition — Beckett, Camus and beyond — and the ways in which their writings can intertwine with life in sometimes ...

Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work. By Jesse McKinley All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share ...

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in Arin Arbus’s pandemic-delayed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. By Laura Collins-Hughes There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the ...