Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most ...

The Year's Work in English Studies, Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study ... to the work of restoring his own speech while suffering aphasia shortly before his death. Often these ...

Dancers said De Keersmaeker, a “godmother of contemporary dance,” ran her company in a tyrannical style that endangered staff ...

In recent months, I have been making my way through the four volumes of Samuel Beckett’s letters. As ever, I’m struck by his humanity, humour and kindness, traits somewhat at odds with his ...

You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back ...

SS Lieutenant Amon Goethe (Ralph Fiennes) gave a chilling speech to his officers ... It may, thanks to Chekhov and Samuel Beckett, be the great modern theme... The imagination has moved out of the ...

Intermezzo, the Irish writer’s fourth novel, is a sensual and sad millennial tale. But there’s more to her world view than ...

Slow Down often has about it the genial vagueness of a graduation speech that means to inspire ... (a more attractive English ...

The spiraling repetitions in action and dialogue recall Samuel Beckett, particularly his 1953 ... The synergy of the hand movements with the rhythms of speech is enchanting, and unappealing ...

(If you haven’t seen Samuel Beckett’s play ... Synthesia is an AI video generator that transforms text into speech in a few minutes. It includes more than 160 AI avatars that can speak ...

Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) in his speech to the Philosophical Society of Texas ... Edward Hanley library, which included manuscripts of Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, ...

In Beckett we find also the link to the "habit", which is the concept of the "mask" in Pirandello. The absence of speech introduces the idea that what is "unspoken", "unsaid" is more important ...