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Samuel Beckett
Biography
• Born 13 April, 1906, in Foxrock, near Dublin.
• 1923-1927: Attended Trinity College, Dublin, studying Modern
  Languages (French & Italian) graduating with BA first class, and
  was awarded the gold medal.
• 1927-28: worked as a teacher of French & English at Campbell
  College, Belfast. Followed by École Normale Supérieure in Paris, as
  Lecteur d’anglais.
• 1929: publishes his first essay (‘Dante… Bruno. Vico… Joyce’) and
  his first short story (‘Assumption’) in the émigré magazine transition.
• 1930: Debut writing of ‘Whoroscope’. Beckett’s first and only critical
  study of any substantial length, which won a £10 prize from Hours
  Press.
•   1938: Stabbed on street in Paris, suffering perforated lung. Was
    visited by pianist, Suzanne Dumesnil, who later became his wife.
•   1946: began his most creative period, writing in French, with
    Mercier et Camier (novel) and Nouvelles.
•   1955: produced Waiting for Godot – most renowned piece.
•   1961: World premier for Happy Days
•   1969: awarded Nobel prize for literature, 23 October.
•   1970: Lessness premiered in London, and Not I premiered in New
    York.
•   1989: Beckett’s wife Suzzanne died in July.
•   1989: Last book printed was Stirrling Still.
•   Died December 22, following respiritory problems.
•   Is rumoured he give much of Nobel Prize money to needy artists.
Nobel Prize
• In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his
  writing, which, in new forms for the novel and drama, in the
  destitution of modern man acquires it’s elevation.”
• His wife Suzanne, who saw that her intensely private husbajd would
  be saddled with fame from that point onward, called the prize a
  “catastrophe”.
• He accepted the award but refused to attend the prize giving
  ceremony in Stockholm.
• While he did not devote much time to interviews, he would still
  sometimes personally meet the artists, scholars, and admirers who
  sought him out in the anonymous lobby of Paris Hotel PLM, which
  was near his Montparnasse home.
Modernism
• Beckett was part of the literary movement called Modernism.
• Modernism is a series of reforming cultural movements in art,
  architecture, literature and applied arts which emerged in the three
  decades before 1914.
• Beckett’s work represents the most sustained attack on the realist
  tradition.
• He opened up the possibility of drama and fiction that gets rid of the
  conventional plot and the ideas of time and place in order to focus
  on the essential components of the human experience.
• His work is stark, minimalist and deeply pessimistic according to
  some critics about the understanding of being a human.
Theatre of Absurd
•   Named by critic Martin Esslin, after title of his 1962 book of same
    subject.
•   Movement designated for plays written by mostly European
    playwrights in late 1940s/50s/60s, along with the style of theatre
    evolved from their work.
•   Originates from Dadaism, nonsense poetry and avant-garde art.
•   The FIVE defining playwrights of this movement are: Eugene
    Ionesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter, and Samuel
    Beckett.
•   Members of the group were not always entirely comfortable with the
    term, and often refered to themselves as ‘Anti-theatre’ or ‘New
    Theatre.
•   Most Famous and controversial absurdist play is Waiting for Godot,
    by Samuel Beckett.
•   Absurd Theatre is intended to shock the audience.
Bibliography: Theatre
•   1940: Eleuthéria
•   1952: Waiting for Godot
•   1956: Act Without Words I & II
•   1957: Endgame
•   1958: Krapp’s Last Tape
•   1960: Happy Days
•   1963: Play
•   1965: Come and Go
•   1972: Not I
•   1975: That Time
•   1975: Footfalls
•   1981: Rockaby
•   1981: Ohio Impromptu
•   1982: Castastrophe
•   1983: What Where
Waiting for Godot
•   ‘En Attendant Godot’ – French, written in 1949, and published in English in
    1954.
•   Was the break for Beckett that brought him international fame across the
    globe, and became established as a leading figure in the Theatre of the
    Absurd movement.
•   It is a Tragi-comedy in two acts, and first opened at Theatre de Babylone,
    on 5th January, 1953, and made history.
•   The story follows two tramps, Vladmir and Estragon, who meet near a tree
    on a country road. They await the arrival of a man called Godot, and so to
    pass the time they joke, reminisce, eat, and even contemplate suicide,
•   It soon appears Godot arrival is never to happen, so the play ends with no
    meaning or specific event that has occurred.
•   Reflects life – waiting, killing time and clinging to the hope that relief may be
    just around the corner, if not today then perhaps tomorrow.
Happy Days
•   During the 15 years after the war, Beckett produced 4 major full-length
    plays, one being Happy Days.
•   He began the play on the 8th Oct 1960 and finished the play in may 1961.
    The 1st production was at The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York on the 17th
    Sept 1961.
•   Happy Days is about a woman named Winnie who is trapped to her waist
    and then to her neck in the ground, with her husband Willie her only
    companion.
•   The dirt is thought to be a metaphor for the human condition. Like Winnie
    we are all moving slowly towards our deaths with only our daily routines to
    distract us from the despair and the need to end our lives early.
•   This play is about a woman who spends her life focusing on her everyday
    activities such as brushing her hair, praying and sorting out the objects she
    keeps with her in her bag in order to help get her through the day.
•   This play shows the strength of the human spirit, the trap of existence and
    the limited nature of communication.
•   Happy Days incorporates powerful themes such as expectation,
    companionship , abuse and hope.
Rockaby
•   Written in 1980, it is a short, one woman play; in
    which she is surrounded by no props or scenery,
    dressed in an evening dress, and in a wooden
    rocking chair that stops and starts of it’s own
    accord, to a pre-recorded voice (her own)
    playing, recounting details of her life.
•   The play was premiered on April 8, 1980 at the
    state University of New York at Buffalo, directed
    by Alan Schneider and starring Billie Whitlaw.
•   Throughout the play, the woman joins in with the
    lines “time she stopped”, “living soul” and “rock
    her off” by demanding “more” each time a little
    softer than before. At the end, the woman fails to
    join in with the voice, the rocking ceases and the
    woman’s head slowly indicates; “she has
    apparently died”.
Famous Quotes
“We were all born mad. Some remain so.”
-   Waiting for Godot


“… this place, if I could describe this place, portray it, I’ve
  tried, I feel no place, no place around me, there’s mend to
  me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s
  like air…”
-   The Unnamable


“You were saying something nice about me, I can feel it.”
- Eleuthéria
“With diminished concentration, loss of memory, obscured
           intelligence… the more chance there is for saying
        something closest to what one really is. Even though
      everything seems inexpressible, there remains the need
         to express. A child need to make a sand castle even
        though it makes no sense. In old age, with only a few
            grains of sand, one has the greatest possibility.”

-    Samuel Beckett, at the age of seventy-six.
The Oxford Samuel Beckett
        Theatre Trust Award Prize
• In spring of 1967, Francis Warner, fellow and tutor in English
  Literature at St Peters College, Oxford, had idea of founding a
  theatre in Oxford, which would be a foundation for all new
  writers/musicians/artists/performers/directors of avant-garde, the
  aim being for them to produce new and experimental work.
• During the Summer of 1967, Warner personally asked Samuel
  Beckett if the theatre could be given his name. He was happy to
  oblige.
• 1976 – The college passes the management process to allow
  access to set up a charitable trust, dedicated to encouraging new
  generations of creative artists .
• The Trust Award was set up in 2003, and the purpose of the award
  is, to help the development of emerging practitioners with
  experimental theatre.
The Samuel Beckett Theatre
• The Samuel Beckett Theatre was opened in 1992 to celebrate the
  quatercentenary of Trinity College, Dublin.
• It is the campus theatre of the Universities Department of Drama.
  During University term it showcases the work of the Department and
  it’s courses, while outside term it hosts visits from some of the most
  prestigious dance and theatre companies from Ireland, Europe,
  Japan and the United States.
• Regular events taking place there are the Dublin Fringe Festival,
  International Dance Festival Ireland, the Dublin Theatre Festival,
  and an on-going series of lectures by practitioners and scholars
  called Contemporary Theatre in context.
Influences
• James Joyce: He was an Irish expatriate writer, widely
  considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th
  century.
• William Butler Yeats: He was an Irish poet and dramatist;
  foremost figures of the 20th century literature.
• Dante Alighieri: He was an Italian poet from Florence; his
  central work, the Commedia, is considered the greatest literary work
  composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world
  literature.
• People he met whist travelling through Europe, give him ideas
  which would later translate into some of his finest characters.
Influence on Others
• Beckett influenced writers like Václay Havel, John Banville, Aidan
  Higgins and Harold Pinter which have all stated their indebtness to
  Beckett.
• He had a wider influence on experimental writing between the
  1950’s and the 1960’s. He had great influence on poets such as
  Derek Mahon, Thomas Kinsella as well as writers like Trevor
  Joyce.
• Many major 20th Century composers including Luciano Berio,
  Philip Glass and Pascal Dusapin have created musical works
  based on Beckett’s texts.
• He influenced many visual artists like Bruce Nauman and
  Alexander Arotin.
•   Beckett is considered to be one of the most prized of twentieth century
    authors.
People’s Views
    “If you believe that Beckett is pessimistic, then you are a Beckett
       character trapped in a Beckett play; Beckett was not saying “no”
     because he wanted to, but because he was searching for the yes.”
-   Peter Brook, The Empty Space

  “Samuel Beckett is sui generis… He has given a voice to the decrepit
      and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their
     tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence.
      He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism lowers,
       amid God’s paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human
     condition be approached… Yet his musical cadences, his wrought
      and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the void… Like
                     salamander we survive in his fire.”
- Richard Ellman
Our Thoughts
From Beckett’s work we have found it to be quite bizarre,
  joyless and harshly pessimistic about recalling everyday
    memories from the human life. His plays aren’t about
     anything specific, yet they still engage the audience
 attention with his wicked taste in humour. Beckett’s works
   seem to have similar themes of waiting and passing the
    time, and demonstrates that even though a journey is
 hard, it is worth the effort. Samuel Beckett is remembered
 as being one of the greatest writers and theatre makers of
   the 20th century. His work is hard to equal, but great for
 inspiring up and coming theatre practitioners, to come up
           with new and innovative ideas for theatre.
References
Websites
http://www.kirjatso.sci.fi/beckett.htm
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc.htm
http://Samuel-beckett.net
http://www.themodernworld.com/beckett
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/05917-1900.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/1969/index.html
Books
- Samuel Beckett, Andrew K. Kennedy, 1989, Cambridge University Press
- The Cambridge Companion To Beckett, John Pilling, 1994, Cambridge
    University Press
Video
- Beckett on Film, Happy Days, 2001
- Beckett on Film, Catastrophe, 2001

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Samuel Beckett

  • 2. Biography • Born 13 April, 1906, in Foxrock, near Dublin. • 1923-1927: Attended Trinity College, Dublin, studying Modern Languages (French & Italian) graduating with BA first class, and was awarded the gold medal. • 1927-28: worked as a teacher of French & English at Campbell College, Belfast. Followed by École Normale Supérieure in Paris, as Lecteur d’anglais. • 1929: publishes his first essay (‘Dante… Bruno. Vico… Joyce’) and his first short story (‘Assumption’) in the émigré magazine transition. • 1930: Debut writing of ‘Whoroscope’. Beckett’s first and only critical study of any substantial length, which won a £10 prize from Hours Press.
  • 3. 1938: Stabbed on street in Paris, suffering perforated lung. Was visited by pianist, Suzanne Dumesnil, who later became his wife. • 1946: began his most creative period, writing in French, with Mercier et Camier (novel) and Nouvelles. • 1955: produced Waiting for Godot – most renowned piece. • 1961: World premier for Happy Days • 1969: awarded Nobel prize for literature, 23 October. • 1970: Lessness premiered in London, and Not I premiered in New York. • 1989: Beckett’s wife Suzzanne died in July. • 1989: Last book printed was Stirrling Still. • Died December 22, following respiritory problems. • Is rumoured he give much of Nobel Prize money to needy artists.
  • 4. Nobel Prize • In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his writing, which, in new forms for the novel and drama, in the destitution of modern man acquires it’s elevation.” • His wife Suzanne, who saw that her intensely private husbajd would be saddled with fame from that point onward, called the prize a “catastrophe”. • He accepted the award but refused to attend the prize giving ceremony in Stockholm. • While he did not devote much time to interviews, he would still sometimes personally meet the artists, scholars, and admirers who sought him out in the anonymous lobby of Paris Hotel PLM, which was near his Montparnasse home.
  • 5. Modernism • Beckett was part of the literary movement called Modernism. • Modernism is a series of reforming cultural movements in art, architecture, literature and applied arts which emerged in the three decades before 1914. • Beckett’s work represents the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. • He opened up the possibility of drama and fiction that gets rid of the conventional plot and the ideas of time and place in order to focus on the essential components of the human experience. • His work is stark, minimalist and deeply pessimistic according to some critics about the understanding of being a human.
  • 6. Theatre of Absurd • Named by critic Martin Esslin, after title of his 1962 book of same subject. • Movement designated for plays written by mostly European playwrights in late 1940s/50s/60s, along with the style of theatre evolved from their work. • Originates from Dadaism, nonsense poetry and avant-garde art. • The FIVE defining playwrights of this movement are: Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. • Members of the group were not always entirely comfortable with the term, and often refered to themselves as ‘Anti-theatre’ or ‘New Theatre. • Most Famous and controversial absurdist play is Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. • Absurd Theatre is intended to shock the audience.
  • 7. Bibliography: Theatre • 1940: Eleuthéria • 1952: Waiting for Godot • 1956: Act Without Words I & II • 1957: Endgame • 1958: Krapp’s Last Tape • 1960: Happy Days • 1963: Play • 1965: Come and Go • 1972: Not I • 1975: That Time • 1975: Footfalls • 1981: Rockaby • 1981: Ohio Impromptu • 1982: Castastrophe • 1983: What Where
  • 8. Waiting for Godot • ‘En Attendant Godot’ – French, written in 1949, and published in English in 1954. • Was the break for Beckett that brought him international fame across the globe, and became established as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd movement. • It is a Tragi-comedy in two acts, and first opened at Theatre de Babylone, on 5th January, 1953, and made history. • The story follows two tramps, Vladmir and Estragon, who meet near a tree on a country road. They await the arrival of a man called Godot, and so to pass the time they joke, reminisce, eat, and even contemplate suicide, • It soon appears Godot arrival is never to happen, so the play ends with no meaning or specific event that has occurred. • Reflects life – waiting, killing time and clinging to the hope that relief may be just around the corner, if not today then perhaps tomorrow.
  • 9. Happy Days • During the 15 years after the war, Beckett produced 4 major full-length plays, one being Happy Days. • He began the play on the 8th Oct 1960 and finished the play in may 1961. The 1st production was at The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York on the 17th Sept 1961. • Happy Days is about a woman named Winnie who is trapped to her waist and then to her neck in the ground, with her husband Willie her only companion. • The dirt is thought to be a metaphor for the human condition. Like Winnie we are all moving slowly towards our deaths with only our daily routines to distract us from the despair and the need to end our lives early. • This play is about a woman who spends her life focusing on her everyday activities such as brushing her hair, praying and sorting out the objects she keeps with her in her bag in order to help get her through the day. • This play shows the strength of the human spirit, the trap of existence and the limited nature of communication. • Happy Days incorporates powerful themes such as expectation, companionship , abuse and hope.
  • 10. Rockaby • Written in 1980, it is a short, one woman play; in which she is surrounded by no props or scenery, dressed in an evening dress, and in a wooden rocking chair that stops and starts of it’s own accord, to a pre-recorded voice (her own) playing, recounting details of her life. • The play was premiered on April 8, 1980 at the state University of New York at Buffalo, directed by Alan Schneider and starring Billie Whitlaw. • Throughout the play, the woman joins in with the lines “time she stopped”, “living soul” and “rock her off” by demanding “more” each time a little softer than before. At the end, the woman fails to join in with the voice, the rocking ceases and the woman’s head slowly indicates; “she has apparently died”.
  • 11. Famous Quotes “We were all born mad. Some remain so.” - Waiting for Godot “… this place, if I could describe this place, portray it, I’ve tried, I feel no place, no place around me, there’s mend to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…” - The Unnamable “You were saying something nice about me, I can feel it.” - Eleuthéria
  • 12. “With diminished concentration, loss of memory, obscured intelligence… the more chance there is for saying something closest to what one really is. Even though everything seems inexpressible, there remains the need to express. A child need to make a sand castle even though it makes no sense. In old age, with only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest possibility.” - Samuel Beckett, at the age of seventy-six.
  • 13. The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award Prize • In spring of 1967, Francis Warner, fellow and tutor in English Literature at St Peters College, Oxford, had idea of founding a theatre in Oxford, which would be a foundation for all new writers/musicians/artists/performers/directors of avant-garde, the aim being for them to produce new and experimental work. • During the Summer of 1967, Warner personally asked Samuel Beckett if the theatre could be given his name. He was happy to oblige. • 1976 – The college passes the management process to allow access to set up a charitable trust, dedicated to encouraging new generations of creative artists . • The Trust Award was set up in 2003, and the purpose of the award is, to help the development of emerging practitioners with experimental theatre.
  • 14. The Samuel Beckett Theatre • The Samuel Beckett Theatre was opened in 1992 to celebrate the quatercentenary of Trinity College, Dublin. • It is the campus theatre of the Universities Department of Drama. During University term it showcases the work of the Department and it’s courses, while outside term it hosts visits from some of the most prestigious dance and theatre companies from Ireland, Europe, Japan and the United States. • Regular events taking place there are the Dublin Fringe Festival, International Dance Festival Ireland, the Dublin Theatre Festival, and an on-going series of lectures by practitioners and scholars called Contemporary Theatre in context.
  • 15. Influences • James Joyce: He was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. • William Butler Yeats: He was an Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of the 20th century literature. • Dante Alighieri: He was an Italian poet from Florence; his central work, the Commedia, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. • People he met whist travelling through Europe, give him ideas which would later translate into some of his finest characters.
  • 16. Influence on Others • Beckett influenced writers like Václay Havel, John Banville, Aidan Higgins and Harold Pinter which have all stated their indebtness to Beckett. • He had a wider influence on experimental writing between the 1950’s and the 1960’s. He had great influence on poets such as Derek Mahon, Thomas Kinsella as well as writers like Trevor Joyce. • Many major 20th Century composers including Luciano Berio, Philip Glass and Pascal Dusapin have created musical works based on Beckett’s texts. • He influenced many visual artists like Bruce Nauman and Alexander Arotin. • Beckett is considered to be one of the most prized of twentieth century authors.
  • 17. People’s Views “If you believe that Beckett is pessimistic, then you are a Beckett character trapped in a Beckett play; Beckett was not saying “no” because he wanted to, but because he was searching for the yes.” - Peter Brook, The Empty Space “Samuel Beckett is sui generis… He has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism lowers, amid God’s paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human condition be approached… Yet his musical cadences, his wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the void… Like salamander we survive in his fire.” - Richard Ellman
  • 18. Our Thoughts From Beckett’s work we have found it to be quite bizarre, joyless and harshly pessimistic about recalling everyday memories from the human life. His plays aren’t about anything specific, yet they still engage the audience attention with his wicked taste in humour. Beckett’s works seem to have similar themes of waiting and passing the time, and demonstrates that even though a journey is hard, it is worth the effort. Samuel Beckett is remembered as being one of the greatest writers and theatre makers of the 20th century. His work is hard to equal, but great for inspiring up and coming theatre practitioners, to come up with new and innovative ideas for theatre.
  • 19. References Websites http://www.kirjatso.sci.fi/beckett.htm http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc.htm http://Samuel-beckett.net http://www.themodernworld.com/beckett http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/05917-1900.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/1969/index.html Books - Samuel Beckett, Andrew K. Kennedy, 1989, Cambridge University Press - The Cambridge Companion To Beckett, John Pilling, 1994, Cambridge University Press Video - Beckett on Film, Happy Days, 2001 - Beckett on Film, Catastrophe, 2001