It is well-known that the University’s Special Collections are home to the world’s largest archive for the Nobel-Prize winning writer, Samuel Beckett with over 600 items of original material, including…Read More >
Samuel Beckett
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 7
Last month the moment I’d been putting off finally arrived and it was time to write. How is it that the blank page upon which something influenced by time spent…Read More >
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 6
There is a perceived impossibility to writing after Beckett. When everything has been winnowed away, what can possibly be left? And yet life is left. At the end of what…Read More >
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 5
I hit a bit of a Beckett wall this month and came to understand why he is often called The Last Modernist – a view I have hitherto opposed. After…Read More >
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 4
Of all I’ve read in my life, and all that’s yet to come, what’s going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me?…Read More >
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 2
It was pretty cold when I visited the archive in December and, in rebellion at the pummellings of pre-Christmas cheer, I ordered up some drafts of Beckett’s final prose work…Read More >
Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 1
Multi-award-winning author Eimear McBride is the inaugural Creative Fellow at the University of Reading’s Samuel Beckett Research Centre. This role allows her exclusive access to the University’s Beckett Archive and…Read More >
Sir Peter Hall’s encounters with Godot
Professor Anna McMullan, Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading. The death of Sir Peter Hall on 11th September marks the passing of a major theatre director who shaped post-World…Read More >
Celebrating 60 years of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’
Saturday 5 January marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most important plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’. As the global centre for Beckett research and home to the…Read More >