The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett Also Available from Continuum Beckett: A G

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett Also Available from Continuum Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed Jonathan Boulter Beckett’s Books Matthew Feldman Beckett and Ethics Edited by Russell Smith Beckett and Death Edited by Steven Barfield, Matthew Feldman and Phillip T ew Beckett and Decay Kathryn White Beckett and Phenomenology Edited by Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman Since Beckett Peter Boxall Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1936–1937 Mark Nixon Samuel Beckett’s ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’ John Pilling Samuel Beckett and Science Chris Ackerley Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Mark Taylor-Batty and Juliette Taylor-Batty The International Reception of Samuel Beckett Edited by Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett A Selective Bibliography of Publications About his Plays and their Conceptual Foundations Charles A. Carpenter Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 Y ork Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New Y ork, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Charles A. Carpenter 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978–1–44115–9748 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN Dedicated to three ‘classics’ among Beckett scholars: Ruby Cohn, James Knowlson, and Stanley Gontarski Table of Contents Part I: Preliminaries 1 A. Introduction and Acknowledgements 3 B. Sources Consulted 12 C. Abbreviations and Variant Names 14 D 1. Beckett’s Writings and Selected Statements 15 2. Chronological List of Beckett’s Dramatic Writings 17 E. Analyzed Collections of Essays 19 F . Bibliographic and Reference Works; Websites 27 G. Textual Studies 32 Part II: Publications that Focus on Beckett’s Drama 35 A. Commentaries that Extend Beyond One Distinct Phase or Genre of Drama 37 B. Commentaries on Early Theatrical Works (before Play) 80 C. Commentaries on Later Theatrical Works (Play and after) 92 D. Radio Plays, Television Plays and ‘Dramaticules’ 101 1. Studies of T wo or More Types (including film) 101 2.  Radio Plays (All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Cascando, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II) 104 3.  T elevision Plays (Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, … but the clouds … , Nacht und Träume, Quad) 106 4.  Dramaticules (Come and Go, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, What Where, Catastrophe) 110 E. Beckett and Other Dramatists 112 1. William Shakespeare 112 2. Henrik Ibsen 115 3. August Strindberg 115 4. William Butler Y eats 116 5. Luigi Pirandello 118 6. John Millington Synge 118 7. Thomas Stearns Eliot 119 8. Antonin Artaud 119 9. Bertolt Brecht 120 10. Jean-Paul Sartre 122 11. Arthur Adamov 123 12. Jean Genet 123 13. Eugène Ionesco 124 14. Albert Camus 127 15. Tadeusz Różewicz 128 16. Edward Albee 129 17. Heiner Müller 129 18. Brian Friel 130 19. Harold Pinter 131 viii The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett 20. Thomas Bernhard 135 21. Václav Havel 135 22. Tom Stoppard 136 23. Sam Shepard 137 24. Other Playwrights 137 F . Theatrical Commentaries 150 Part III: Publications Relevant to but not Focused on Beckett’s Drama 165 A. General and Miscellaneous 167 B. Selected Publications of Primarily Biographical Interest 187 C. Beckett’s Philosophy, Aesthetics and Criticism 191 D. Translation and Bilingualism 205 E. The Irish Connection 210 Part IV: Publications Relevant to Beckett’s Drama Through 1973 217 Part V: Commentaries on Individual Dramatic Works 236 [Titles given after the English ones, if any, are French, then German] 1. Act Without Words I / Actes sans paroles I / Spiel ohne Worte I 236 2. Act Without Words II / Actes sans paroles II / Spiel ohne Worte II 239 3. All That Fall / Tous ceux qui tombent / Alle, die da fallen 240 4. Breath / Breath / Atem 247 5. … but the clouds … / … que nuages … / … nur noch Gewölk … 248 6. Cascando 249 7. Catastrophe / Catastrophe / Katastrophe 251 8. Come and Go / Va et vient / Kommen und Gehen 254 9. ‘Dreamer’s Mime A’ / ‘Mime du rêveur A’ (Abandoned dramatic fragment) 256 10. Eh Joe / Dis Joe / He Joe 256 11. Eleutheria / Eleuthéria 259 12. Embers / Cendres / Aschenglut 262 13a. Endgame / Fin de partie / Endspiel (1974 to date) 265 13b. Endgame / Fin de partie / Endspiel (pre-1974) 295 14. Film 302 15. Footfalls / Pas / Tritte 308 16. Ghost Trio / Trio du fantôme / Geister Trio 312 17. Happy Days / Oh les beaux jours / Glückliche Tage 315 18. ‘Human Wishes’ (Abandoned dramatic fragment) 330 19. ‘J. M. Mime’ (Abandoned dramatic fragment) 331 20. ‘Le Kid’ (Performed 1931; text not extant) 331 21. Krapp’s Last Tape / La dernière bande / Das letzte Band 332 22. Nacht und Träume 348 23. Not I / Pas moi / Nicht ich 349 24. Ohio Impromptu / L’Impromptu d’Ohio 359 25. The Old Tune (Radio-play adaptation of Robert Pinget’s play La manivelle) 362 Table of Contents ix 26. A Piece of Monologue / Solo / Ein Stück Monolog 362 27. Play / Comédie / Spiele 364 28. Quad (Quad I and II) / Quadrat 1 + 2 371 29. Rockaby / Berceuse 373 30. Rough for Radio I (Radio I) / Esquisse radiophonique / Hörspiel- Skizze I 376 31. Rough for Radio II (Radio II) / Pochade radiophonique / Hörspiel- Skizze II 377 32. Rough for Theatre I (Theatre I) / Fragment de théâtre 377 33. Rough for Theatre II (Theatre II) / Fragment de théâtre II 378 34. That Time / Cette fois / Damals 379 35a. Waiting for Godot / En attendant Godot / Warten auf Godot (1974 to date) 382 35b. Waiting for Godot / En attendant Godot / Warten auf Godot (pre-1974) 439 36. What Where / Quoi où / Was Wo 454 37. Words and Music / Paroles et musique / Worte und Musik 456 Author/Short Title Index 459 Part I: Preliminaries A. Introduction and Acknowledgements The President of the Modern Language Association at the time, Marjorie Perloff, addressed the 2006 MLA convention as follows: This year marks the centennial of Samuel Beckett’s birth, and the celebrations around the world have been a wonder to behold. From Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Rio de Janeiro to Sofia, from South Africa … to New Zealand, from Florida State University, Tallahassee to the University of Reading, from the Barbican Theatre in London to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, from Hamburg and Kassel and Zurich to Aix-en-Provence and Lille, from St. Petersburg to Madrid to Tel Aviv, and of course most notably in Dublin, 2006 has been Beckett’s Y ear … Who, indeed, more global an artist than Beckett?1 Half a decade has passed since that testament to Beckett’s predominance in the literary world, yet a huge, conspicuous gap still existed in Beckett studies until now. The book in hand, The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective Bibliography of Publications About his Plays and Their Conceptual Foundations, is intended to fill a large part of that gap as fully and conveni- ently as feasible. This volume is huge enough; someone else will have to tackle the remainder of the gap, Beckett’s equally renowned fiction and essays. It is not so much that assiduous searching of available reference works, both in print and online, would not uncover literally thousands of references to Beckett and his writings of all kinds. It is more a matter of how one profits from the ungainly lists that this would produce. For drama specialists, no single source or continuing checklist will supply their concrete, immediate needs for a considered selection of relevant material on Beckett’s works designed for theatre, film, television and radio. To pose the problem in an exemplary nutshell, where can anyone find an up-to-date, authoritative, easy-to-use list of publications about Waiting for Godot? (about 1,080 at this point). As Normand Berlin said in 2009, it is ‘unquestionably the most important play of the twentieth century’.2 The first source one would think of is Cathleen Culotta Andonian’s eminently valuable Samuel Beckett: A Reference Guide,3 a 750-page volume which lists and annotates much of the extensive commentary on all phases of Beckett through 1984. However, besides being outdated and virtually unselective, it is arranged chronologically with no sections for individual works, so that the user’s only resort is to consult Waiting for Godot in the index and check each of the more than 500 references. The most obvious candidate to fulfil this need was published in 2005: William Hutchings’ Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’: A Reference Guide. But somewhat surprisingly, while this volume contains rich discussions of critical approaches to the play and uploads/Philosophie/ the-dramatic-works-of-samuel-beckett.pdf

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