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Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."
Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis court built in 1903 by Samuel's father, William. The house and garden, together with the surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby Leopardstown Racecourse, the Foxrock railway station and Harcourt Street station at the city terminus of the line, all feature in his prose and plays.
Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula.
Initially, the audience knows very little about Sam, much as Sam knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect."
Sam Beckett was born at 12:30 pm EST on August 8, 1953, in Elk Ridge, Indiana to dairy farmer John Samuel Beckett and his wife Thelma Louise Beckett. As a child, he had two cats, named Donner and Blitzen, but never had a dog. Sam was a child prodigy, learning to read at age 2 and do advanced calculus in his head at age 5. By the time he was 10, he could beat a computer at chess. Sam also played piano in a concert at Carnegie Hall when he was 19, plays guitar, is a good dancer, sings tenor, and his favorite song is John Lennon's "Imagine".
Sam has a photographic memory, an IQ of 267, likes dry or light beer, and microwave popcorn. Sam also knows several kinds of martial arts and has been afraid of heights since he was 9 years old. In his teen years, Sam's family was dealt a hard blow when his older brother, Tom, was killed in Vietnam on April 8, 1970, but Sam leaps into his brother's unit and saves him on that day. Tom (Thomas Andrew Beckett) was a good athlete, an All-State basketball player, an Annapolis graduate, is a Navy SEAL Commander, and has a wife named Mary. Sam has one sister named Katie (Katherine Elizabeth Beckett), born during a flood in 1957, whose first husband was an abusive alcoholic named Chuck. They divorced and she is now married to Navy officer Lt. Jim Bonnick. They have lived in Hawaii with Thelma Beckett since 1974.
Samuel (/ˈsæm.juː.əl/;Hebrew: שְׁמוּאֵל, Modern Shmu'el, Tiberian Šəmûʼēl; Arabic: صموئيل Ṣamuil; Greek: Σαμουήλ Samouēl; Latin: Samvel; Strong's: Shemuwel), literally meaning "Name of God" in Hebrew, is a leader of ancient Israel in the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. He is also known as a prophet and is mentioned in the second chapter of the Qur'an, although not by name.
His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of the major prophets who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel. He was thus at the cusp between two eras. According to the text of the Books of Samuel, he also anointed the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel: Saul and David.
Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Rama-thaim in the district of Zuph. His genealogy is also found in a pedigree of the Kohathites (1 Chron. 6:3-15) and in that of Heman, his great-grandson (ib. vi. 18-22). According to the genealogical tables, Elkanah was a Levite - a fact otherwise not mentioned in the books of Samuel. The fact that Elkanah, a Levite, was denominated an Ephraimite is analogous to the designation of a Levite belonging to Judah (Judges 17:7, for example).
Samuel (Սամվել Samvel) is an 1886 Armenian language novel by the novelist Raffi. Considered by some critics his most successful work, the plot centres on the killing of the fourth-century Prince Vahan Mamikonian and his wife by their son Samuel.
Samuel of Nehardea or Samuel bar Abba (Hebrew: שמואל or שמואל ירחינאה) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the first generation; son of Abba bar Abba and head of the Yeshiva at Nehardea. He was a teacher of halakha, judge, physician, and astronomer. He was born about 165 CE at Nehardea, in Babylonia and died there about 257 CE. As in the case of many other great men, a number of legendary stories are connected with his birth (comp. Halakot Gedolot, Giṭṭin, end; Tos. Ḳid. 73a s.v. Mai Ikka). In Talmudic texts, Samuel is frequently associated with Abba Arika, with whom he debated on many major issues. He was the teacher of Rabbi Judah ben Ezekiel. From the little biographical information gleaned from the Talmud, we know that Samuel was never ordained as a Tanna, that he was very precise with his words (Kidd. 70), and that he had a special affinity for astronomy: one of his best known sayings was that "The paths of heaven are as clear to me as the pathways of Nehardea."
Actors: Jay Greenberg (actor), Jacob Salas (actor), Stephen Lloyd Smith (actor), T.D. White (actor), Lou Matthews (actress), Cynthia Shaw (actress), James Richard (producer), T.D. White (producer), Don Nigro (writer), Matthew Martin Ward (composer), Joe Quartararo (director), David Mercado (editor),
Plot: This commemorative, immersive black and white film based on Don Nigro's play takes us back into the shooting of Irish literary lion Samuel Beckett's one and only film made in July of 1964, fifty years ago this year... the odd, now iconic 'FILM,' which was a cinematic treatment of the philosophic principle of George Lord Berkeley that to be is to be perceived ('esse est percipi'). It featured silent film star Buster Keaton trying to escape perception, even from himself, in one of his very last but most memorable roles. Some comedy, some drama, some history, some biography and a lot of imaginative filmmaking.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History, Short,Actors: Matthew Goldberg (actor), Karl Graboshas (actor), Arthur Holden (actor), Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Neil Kroetsch (actor), Stephen McHattie (actor), Chimwemwe Miller (actor), Luc Morrissette (actor), Mike Paterson (actor), Marc Primeau (actor), Victoria Barkoff (actress), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Alina Gotcherian (actress), Chip Chuipka (actor),
Plot: A young poet, Paul Susser, meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett, in a small cafe. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beckett's life and forever changes Paul's future. After Beckett's death, Paul meets Lucia an actress who wants to play Krapp, Beckett's most autobiographical male character. By opening himself up to this woman he will finally come to terms with Backett's legacy. This feature length fiction allows for a surprisingly fresh and intimate journey which follows the crisscrossed destinies of two creators attempting to 'say the unsayable'. A study in humanity, poetry and the creative process.
Keywords: cafe, theatreActors: Martin Murphy (actor), Arthur Riordan (actor), Lucy Miller (actress), Noreen Donohoe (producer), Brendan McCarthy (producer), Donald Clarke (writer), Donald Clarke (director), Hugh Chaloner (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Samuel Beckett is perhaps the greatest playwright of the 20th century, and the author of the masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. It’s hard to understand the modern world without his perspective. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/8hhqmu Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Or visit us in person at our London HQ https://goo.gl/YxLRtP FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://goo.gl/IUf5UE MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/yNUGf1 Watch more films on LITERATURE in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLliterature You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_c...
The life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled in this two-part documentary: from his Dublin childhood, to his days in Paris, associating with Picasso and Chagall, to old age. Excerpts from a performance of the semiautobiographical Krapp’s Last Tape and previously unpublished letters tell the story, along with the remembrances of Beckett’s lifelong friend and publisher, Jerome Lindon, relatives, and others who knew him. This is a rare glimpse into the reclusive world of this literary giant, whose most famous work, Waiting for Godot, evokes with unnerving precision the cosmic despair and isolation of modern humankind. Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ManufacturingIntellect Donate Crypto! https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/868d67d2-1628-44a8-b8dc...
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Full version. The play (directed by Beckett himself) was first transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981 -- as "Quadrat I+II". "Between the two parts there is an intermission of 100'000 years." (S.B. during the rehearsals) Weitere Informationen, Verweise auf Artikel & Videos zu den Themen Literatur & Theater auf der Google+ Seite von TextundBuehne hier: https://www.youtube.com/user/TextundBuehne
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts. Check out these GREAT Beckett books on Amazon! Samuel Beckett: A Biography: https://amzn.to/300Z0yt The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: https://amzn.to/2N3NK2B Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett: https://amzn.to/2ZNb8XP Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: https://amzn.to/31532rh Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ManufacturingIntellect Donate Crypto! https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/868d67d...
Footage of Beckett in 1987, taken from "Waiting for Beckett: A Portrait of Samuel Beckett" (Global Village Production, 1994). The clip presented here is of Beckett talking about "What Where." More information on the documentary can be found at: http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_film_wfb1994.html For those interested in purchasing a copy of the documentary on DVD, the details are here: http://samuel-beckett.net/global.html
Samuel Beckett walk in Berlin. 1969, by Rosa veim and Daniel Schmid.
"Endgame" (2000). Director: Conor McPherson Writer: Samuel Beckett Starring: David Thewlis and Michael Gambon. Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Get ready to get weird. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the Theater of the Absurd, a 1950s theatrical reaction to the dire world events of the 1940s. You'll learn about Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and the theatrical movement that left us all Waiting for Godot. Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following Patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever: Eric Prestemon, Sam Buck, Mark Brouwer, Naman Goel, Patrick Wiener II, Nathan Catchings, Efrain R. Pedroza, Brandon Westmoreland, dorsey, Indika Siriwardena, James Hughes, Kenneth F Penttinen, Trevin Beattie, Satya Ridhima Parvathaneni, Erika & Alexa Saur, Glenn Elliott, Justin Zings...
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."
Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis court built in 1903 by Samuel's father, William. The house and garden, together with the surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby Leopardstown Racecourse, the Foxrock railway station and Harcourt Street station at the city terminus of the line, all feature in his prose and plays.