Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, co
Beckett in 1977
Beckett's residence at Trinity College Dublin, pictured in 2021
Samuel Beckett Walk in Paris
Portrait of Samuel Beckett by Reginald Gray, painted in Paris, 1961 (from the collection of Ken White, Dublin)
Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett. It was written, first published, and first performed in French as En attendant Godot. The play is Beckett's own English-langu
Samuel Beckett
…writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in…
Scene from the 1978 production directed by Otomar Krejča for the Festival d'Avignon
Rufus as Estragon and Georges Wilson as Vladimir in the 1978 adaptation of the play
Vladimir and Estragon (The Doon School, India, 2010)
Estragon and the boy (University of Chicago, 2020)