Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNLIKE THE many great playwright who never lived to see posterity linker with their masterpieces. Samuel Beckett is paying the price for being the living author of a classic...
...dead and not flattered to be treated like Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett was furious that the American Repertory Theater had reset his 1957 classic, endgame, in an abandoned, debris-filled subway tunnel...
FROM THOSE grossly distorted productions which misrepresent his work and endanger his reputation a playwright does deserve protection. But the only way to ensure this protection is to state in acceptable limits of interpretation explicitly in contracts with literary agents. If Samuel Beckett felt so strongly about the setting of Endgame, the licensing agent could then have warned the ART of Beckett's criterin and prevented an unnecessary controversy...
...self and a method of recapturing the past. That is a truth every diarist apprehends, first instinctively and then with the evidence of the page. In this critical anthology, Thomas Mallon, a professor of English at Vassar, offers hundreds of such proofs, from diaries as old as Samuel Pepys' and as contemporary as Graham Greene's and Jean Harris...
ROCKABY. In two stunning short plays by Samuel Beckett, Footfalls and Rockaby, daft old women lull themselves to death with monologues of sere poetry. This explorer of the darkest human emotions found in Actress Billie Whitelaw the ideal interpreter of his spectral campfire tales...