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Beckett in Dublin by E, S; Wilmer (editor) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Beckett's cradle, a place, in Eoin O'Brien's words, he revisited 'with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray'. It was fitting, then, shortly after Beckett's death, that his birthplace - through the good offices of the Gate Theatre, Trinity College and Radio Telefís Éireann - should have decided to honour the 1969 Nobel prizewinner by staging all of his dramatic productions over three weeks during October 1991 and hosting a series of visual displays, lectures, seminars and discussions by local and international scholars, friends and colleagues, of which Beckett in Dublin is the fruit. Part One, 'A Man of Theatre', concerns Beckett's stagecraft, with learned essays by his English editor James Knowlson and American collaborator S.E. Gontarski, and a lively reminiscence by French actor Jean Martin, who played Lucky in the original production of En attendant Godot in 1953. Part Two, 'Themes and...

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Author
E, S; Wilmer (editor)
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781843513476
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction

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