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Works

Early Life

  • Born April 13, 1906 in Dublin
  • Attended school at Earlsfort House School
  • At age 14, went to Portora Royal School
  • Excelled at cricket, played for Dublin University
  • Bachelors degree from Trinity College in 1927
  • Wrote in English and French
  • His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence
  • Last of the Theater of the Absurd

Waiting for Godot

Murphy

Molloy

Malone Dies

The Unnamable

Watt

Endgame

How It Is

Environment

Mid-Life

  • After World War II, society as a whole lost trust in everyone else. The loneliness that this distrust caused is portrayed in some of his works.
  • There were many countries that went into recession following World War II, which influenced some of his characters in their behavior and diction.
  • Beckett becomes a student of James Joyce
  • Embarks on a trip through Germany, France, and Britain (1931)
  • Beckett settles in Paris (1937)
  • Stabbed by a pimp
  • Meets Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnuil
  • Fights in French resistance movement
  • Most prolific period as a writer

Awards

Late Life

  • Croix de Guerre
  • Medaille de la Resistance
  • Nobel Prize for Literature (1969)
  • Great success with his plays
  • Career as a theater director
  • Marries Suzanne in secret
  • Commissioned by BBC
  • 70s and 80s - Beckett writes in a small house outside Paris
  • Late 1980s - nursing home
  • Dies December 22, 1989

Personality

Legacy

  • "I had little talent for happiness"
  • Beckett was moody and prone to fits of depression.
  • He often acted recklessly and without fear of consequence.
  • His pessimism lead him to associate with Absurdist thought.
  • Sustained attack on the "realist tradition"
  • 20th century composers have created musical works based on his texts
  • One of the most widely praised writers by critics for his philosophies
  • All rights for performance of his plays are held by the Beckett Estate

(only allows them to be performed exactly as they were written.)

bio.

http://www.biography.com/people/samuel-beckett-9204239#synopsis

Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett#Early_works

Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Beckett

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