Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

ECTS allocation:                   20
Teaching Faculty:                 Prof Nicholas Grene
Contact:                                1 x 2 hours/week in Michaelmas term

 Hilary Term

Week 8 Murphy
Week 9 Molloy
Week 10 Waiting for Godot
Week 11 All that Fall, Krapp's Last Tape
Week 12 Happy Days, Not I , Rockaby.

Primary texts

Samuel Beckett Murphy (London: Faber, 2009), Molloy (London: Faber, 2009)*,
Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber, 1986)

*You may prefer to buy copies of the Trilogy which contains Molloy .

Secondary reading

H. Porter Abbott Beckett Writing Beckett (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP,1996).
C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett (New York: Grove/Atlantic, 2004)
Andrew Kennedy Samuel Beckett (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989).
James Knowlson Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1997)
Douglas McMillan and Martha Fehsenfeld Beckett in the Theatre I (London, 1988).
Vivian Mercier Beckett/Beckett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
Eoin O'Brien The Beckett Country (Dublin: Black Cat Press, 1986).
John Pilling (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Beckett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Christopher Ricks Beckett's Dying Words (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1993).

A fuller bibliography will be supplied at the time of the seminars.