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Samuel Beckett
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
| Scope: Samuel Beckett was an Irish writer who established his prominence in the United States with the publication of Waiting For Godot. A novelist and playwright, Beckett belonged to the theatre of the absurd, in that he believed that human activity has no meaning. A prevailing tone of pessimism is evident in his works. |
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CIRCULATING COLLECTION
Books of Samuel Becketts works are listed in our on-line catalog under Beckett, Samuel and under individual titles, i.e. Ill Seen Ill Said.
Books written by and about Samuel Beckett have the call number(s) PR6003.E282
PQ2603.E378
PR 8892.D8 E57
VIDEOS
PR6003.E282 K7 1990 Krapp's Last Tape
475-vols. 1 & 2 Waiting for Godot
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not Circulate but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PR 502.C85 1992 Current Survey of Poetry
REF PS 2l.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 13 British Dramatists since World War 11
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 15 British novelists 1930-1959
REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers p. 236-240
REF PN 44.M3 Masterplots Vol. 15 Check index under authors last name
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
02/08/2007
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