Beckett remembering, remembering Beckett : uncollected interviews with Samuel Beckett & memories of those who knew him / edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Beckett remembering
- Ch. 1. The young Samuel Beckett
- Biography, 1906-27
- Home
- Family
- Music and tennis
- School
- University
- Sport and theatre
- Ch. 2. Reluctant teacher and lecturer
- Biography, 1927-33
- Campbell College, Belfast
- The Sinclairs and Kassel
- The Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
- Beckett on the Joyces
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Beckett on Jack B. Yeats
- Francis Stuart on Beckett
- Ch. 3. The bad years
- Biography, 1933-9
- Psychotherapy and Murphy
- J. M. Coetzee
- Biography, 1940-6
- Beckett and the French resistance
- Escape to the south
- The Irish Red Cross Hospital, Saint-Lo
- Pt. II. Remembering Beckett
- Ch. 4. Post-war success : the French Novels and En attendant Godot
- Biography, 1945-55
- Richard Seaver on translating Beckett
- Patrick Bowles on Beckett in the early 1950s
- Jean Martin on the world premiere of En attendant Godot
- Peter Woodthorpe on the British premiere of Waiting for Godot
- Ruby Cohn on the Godot circle
- Ch. 5. Growing fame
- Biography, 1955-69
- Lawrence E. Harvey on Beckett, 1961-2
- Aidan Higgins
- Avigdor Arikha on Beckett and art
- Martin Esslin on Beckett the man
- Eileen O'Casey
- Shivaun O'Casey
- Ch. 6. Beckett as director
- Biography
- The Royal Court Theatre, London : Brenda Bruce
- The Royal Court Theatre, London : Jocelyn Herbert
- The Royal Court Theatre, London : Billie Whitelaw
- The Schiller-Theater, Berlin
- The San Quentin Drama Workshop : Rick Cluchey
- The San Quentin Drama Workshop : Alan Mandell
- The San Quentin Drama Workshop : Lawrence Held
- The San Quentin Drama Workshop : Bud Thorpe
- Ch. 7. Memories of Beckett in London and Berlin
- Biography
- London
- Berlin
- Ch. 8. Beckett in the USA : tributes and memories
- Biography
- Edward Albee
- Paul Auster
- Jessica Tandy
- Hume Cronyn
- Frederick Neumann
- Ch. 9. The last twenty years
- Biography, 1969-89
- James Knowlson
- S. E. Gontarski
- Charles Krance
- Michael Rudman
- Jan Jonson
- Anthony Minghella
- Ch. 10. In brief
- Ch. 11. And finally ...
- Antoni Libera : Beckett's blessing
- Robert Scanlan : indeflectible courtesy
- Raymond Federman : Sam's gift of words
- App. Beckett on Racine : the unpublished lecture notes of Grace West (nee McKinley), 1931.
