Tag Archives: Samuel Beckett

Beckett conference

The registration for the Beckett at Reading Postgraduate Group conference ‘Beckett and Europe’ is open. UoR staff and students are all very welcome and receive a reduced rate. The conference will take place on the 28th and 29th of October … Continue reading

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Mark Nixon at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Mark Nixon, editor of Beckett’s story Echo’s Bones (Faber, 2014), joined actor Lisa Dwan, star of the acclaimed one-woman trilogy of Beckett plays at the Royal Court, and Dan Gunn (co-editor, The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1957 – 1965) at this … Continue reading

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Nixon on Beckett on the BBC

Tonight, at 22:45 on Radio 3, Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon will be talking on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written. Find out more by following this link.

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Samuel Beckett’s Murphy notebooks on display today

We are proud to announce that for the first time in their history, Samuel Beckett’s six unpublished Murphy notebooks will be on public display within the Special Collections Service at the Museum of English Rural Life on Redlands Road today, … Continue reading

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Reading academic revives 80 year-old Beckett work

Dr Mark Nixon has been the inspiration behind the first new Samuel Beckett text to be published in almost 20 years. Dr Mark Nixon, one of the world’s leading Beckett scholars, has brought to life ‘Echo’s Bones’ 80 years after … Continue reading

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Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece acquired by the university

The University is delighted to announce that it has acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500, at an auction at Sotheby’s in London today. The hand-written manuscript, which has been in … Continue reading

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Waiting for Godot

As a world centre for Samuel Beckett research, in January media spoke to University of Reading experts about the 60th anniversary of Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’. Emeritus Professor Jim Knowlson, a friend of Beckett and his official biographer, was featured on the … Continue reading

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