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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and...
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    Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: Droichead Samuel Beckett) is a cable-stayed swingbridge in Dublin, Ireland that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south...
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    Waiting for Godot (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in...
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  • Dr. Samuel John Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula. Initially...
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    Samuel Beckett (P61) is a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service. The ship was launched in November 2013 and commissioned...
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  • The Samuel Beckett Award was a British award set up in 1983 and, over the next decade, awarded to writers, who in the opinion of a committee of critics...
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    the Barbican Pit after her theatre company Boileroom was granted the Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. In addition, she has directed an Off-Off-Broadway...
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    The Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessels (OPV) ordered by the Irish Naval Service from October 2010. The first...
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  • film about Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, directed by James Marsh and written by Neil Forsyth. Gabriel Byrne stars as Beckett, with a supporting cast featuring...
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  • the sci-fi/drama Quantum Leap, created by Donald P. Bellisario. Dr. Samuel Beckett (Scott Bakula) – The mastermind behind Project Quantum Leap who leaps...
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    Celtic mythology and Irish folklore. However, the Samuel Beckett-class vessels, including LÉ Samuel Beckett (commissioned 17 May 2014), LÉ James Joyce (commissioned...
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  • Happy Days is a play in two acts, written by Samuel Beckett first performed in 1961. Viewed positively by critics, it was named in The Independent as one...
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  • Molloy (novel) (category Novels by Samuel Beckett)
    Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett first written in French and published by Paris-based Les Éditions de Minuit in 1951. The English translation, published...
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  • Film (film) (category Films with screenplays by Samuel Beckett)
    Film is a 1965 short film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April...
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  • river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake); her staging of Lessness by Samuel Beckett (Barbican, Galway International Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre...
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    Theatre of the Absurd", which begins by focusing on the playwrights Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco. Esslin says that their plays have...
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  • Endgame (play) (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents and his doddering...
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    characters. Major absurdist authors include Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. A great deal of absurdist fiction may be humorous...
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  • Peggy Guggenheim, her first gallery, and a brief, unlikely affair with Samuel Beckett. Before that, Godfrey was a Visiting Artist at The American Academy...
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    Krapp's Last Tape (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee...
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  • Alan Mandell (category Samuel Beckett)
    actor, he is especially acclaimed as an interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett. Albert Mandell was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario in 1927...
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    writer Samuel Beckett (1906–89) and the American author Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain. The name Samuel is popular...
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  • Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (category Samuel Beckett)
    wife of Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett chose Déchevaux-Dumesnil as his lover over the heiress Peggy Guggenheim. Six years older than Beckett, Déchevaux-Dumesnil...
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    did not win, the audience, which included her father and the young Samuel Beckett, championed her performance as outstanding and loudly protested the...
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    noted for his collaborations with playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, sometimes called "Beckett's favourite actor," as well as creating the role...
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    over 150 critical texts. Expert, translator and promoter of works of Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard and Alberto Giacometti, among others. He is the son...
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  • English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of...
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    While Roussimoff was growing up in the 1950s, the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was one of several adults who sometimes drove local children to school...
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    and writer. She is best known for her work in theatre, performing in Samuel Beckett adaptations among other works. She began her career in the Fox Kids...
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  • Not I (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln...
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