Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Beckett series

This book, first published in 1985, contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer¿s plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews, and most importantly, a selection of Beckett¿s own comments on their work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries.

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett¿s art as dramatist and story-teller.

This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett¿s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word.