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The Unnamable
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- An interview with Dr Rosemary Pountney Rosemary Pountney [RP] trained as an actor before taking an English degree at Oxford, followed by a D.Phil in Beckett’s drama, later published as Theatre of Shadows*. Now retired, she was Lecturer in English at University College Dublin and JesusCollege Oxford, Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Winchester, and is now an Hon. Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. She began performing Beckett’s one-woman plays while working on her thesis and subsequently made numerous tours in Europe and worldwide, performing the plays and lecturing on Beckett’s drama.
* (Reprinted 1998, ISBN-0-86140-407-6 (available from Colin Smythe Ltd, £ 12.95.)
This interview (18/08/09) was conducted by Matthew Feldman [MF], author of Beckett’s Books:
A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett’s “Interwar Notes”
and co-editor of a number of
recent volumes on Beckett.
An extended and corrected version of this interview appears in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'Hui, Vol. 20 2010 (forthcoming).
downloadable mp3 under Interviews.
- Beckett – Living Materials: International Conference and Research Opportunities Symposium, 25-26 September 2009, Reading: for
more information: see 'Conferences/CFPs'
- The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective, Classified, International Bibliography of Publications About His Plays and Their Conceptual Foundations . 370 pages.
by Charles A. Carpenter, compiler of Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism, 1966-1990. 2 vols.
University
of
Toronto Press
. (50,000 selected entries)
Guaranteed free updates; available in Microsoft WORD.
Special features: Sections on Beckett and Other Dramatists; Beckett’s Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Criticism; Translation and Bilingualism; The Irish Connection. For younger scholars: A Descriptive Chronology of Beckett’s Plays, Theatrical Career, and Dramatic Theories Through 1965 .
To purchase the bibliography: Send a check for $30 to Charles A. Carpenter,
908 Lehigh Ave.
,
Vestal
NY
13850
.
Address email inquiries to <ccarpen@binghamton.edu> .
- Beckett International Foundation: Notice
The University of Reading has restructured its Library, Museums and Special Collections Services, necessitating a change to the citation of Beckett manuscript material. The general acknowledgement citation remains ‘Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading’, but the abbreviation ‘RUL’ is to be replaced by ‘UoR’ (for example: ‘UoR MS 3000’). Considering the long tradition of citing material with the abbreviation RUL this change is regrettable, but necessary in the interest of accuracy in the citation of proper location. Should you have any queries, please contact Dr Mark Nixon –
m.nixon@reading.ac.uk
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Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui:
The
CUMULATIVE ONLINE INDEX TO VOLUMES 1-17 of the journal SAMUEL BECKETT TODAY / AUJOURD'HUIcompiled byMarius Buning and Anjela Moorjani lists all the Tables of Contents and four different indexes (of Contributors, Works, Names, and Topics).
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Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui: the GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS of the journal SAMUEL BECKETT TODAY / AUJOURD'HUI compiled by Marius Buning and Anjela Moorjani
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The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has launched a Samuel Beckett web exhibition, titled "Fathoms From Anywhere," to mark Beckett's centennial:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/beckett/
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Beckett in Hamburg 1936: exhibition from 10th Nov 2006 – 14th Jan 2007 in the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky. Virtual version of the exhibition: www.beckett-in-hamburg-1936.de
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