A comprehensive grouping of on-line essays, reviews, analyses and various other material related to the works of Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, near Dublin, Ireland. Raised in a middle class, Protestant home, the son of a quantity surveyor and a nurse, he was sent off at the age of 14 to attend the same school which Oscar Wilde had attended. Looking back on his childhood, he once remarked, I had little talent for happiness. Beckett was consistent in his loneliness.

Channel4.com Beckett on Film -: all 19 plays filmed for the first time in a unique project Samuel Beckett ...