To comply with the law Beckett “ was obliged to be in residence in Folkstone for a minimum of two weeks to allow him to be married in the Registry Office there ” and this time spent there observing the locals may well have influenced the “ middle class, English, ‘ Home Counties ’” setting of Play though James Knowlson also point to two visits to Sweetwater about the same time.

Beckett spent most of the Second World War in internment but came back afterwards to lead the British Peoples Party.

His cohort was John Beckett a former Labour party Member of Parliament whom other fascist groups complained syphoned his monies which could have been spent on more worthy projects.

Beckett himself sanctioned " one of the most famous mixed-race productions of Godot, performed at the Baxter Theatre in the University of Cape Town, directed by Donald Howarth, with [...] two black actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, playing Didi and Gogo ; Pozzo, dressed in checked shirt and gumboots reminiscent of an Afrikaner landlord, and Lucky (' a shanty town piece of white trash ') were played by two white actors, Bill Flynn and Peter Piccolo [...].

Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia, the third daughter of They're à Beckett Weigall, a prominent judge who was related to the Boyd family, perhaps Australia's most famous and prolific artistic dynasty.

“ 85 million people saw 1314 performances making it easily Beckett ’ s most viewed play .”

The concept of Scholarship is a valued tradition of the College and many of TCD's most distinguished alumni were elected Scholars ( including Samuel Beckett and Ernest Walton ).

DU Players, one of the most prolific student-drama societies in Europe which hosts more than 50 shows and events a year in the Samuel Beckett Theatre ; The DU Film Society ( Formerly DU Filmmakers, formerly the DU " Videographic Society ", founded in 1987 ) which organises film-makers and film-lovers on campus through workshops, screenings, production funding, etc.

Hart-Davis believed the most likely candidate for his natural father to be a Yorkshire banker called Gervase Beckett.

It is one of Beckett ’ s most ‘ musical ’ pieces with “ a chorus for three voices, orchestration, stage directions concerning tempo, volume and tone, a da capo repeat of the entire action ” and a short coda.

Many of Beckett ’ s plays and prose pieces are located “ in ‘ places ’ which may strike us as being most adequately described as ‘ Hell ’, ‘ Limbo ’ or ‘ Purgatory ’– and the parallels with Dante are always tempting ” – and indeed the most popular interpretation of Play is that the three are in some place like this.

Sarris discusses Film in the context of his section on the film career of Buster Keaton, writing that: " Even Samuel Beckett contributed to the desecration of the Keaton mask by involving the actor of absurdity before its time in a dreary exercise called Film, the most pretentious title in all cinema.

This can be seen particularly in the work of Samuel Beckett ( most notably in Waiting for Godot ), who in turn influenced writers such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

Scotland has in the late 20th-century produced several important novelists, including James Kelman ( 1946-), who like Samuel Beckett can create humour out of the most grim situations.

The most important works that occupied Flaxman in the years next following this appointment were the monument to Mrs Baring in Micheldever church, the richest of all his monuments in relief ( 1805 – 1811 ); that for the Worsley family at Campsall church, Yorkshire, which is the next richest ; those to Sir Joshua Reynolds for St Paul's ( 1807 ); to Captain Webbe for India ( 1810 ); to Captains Walker and Beckett for Leeds ( 1811 ); to Lord Cornwallis for Prince of Wales's Island ( 1812 ); and to Sir John Moore for Glasgow ( 1813 ).

The most enduring characters were Dr Bruce Russell ( Malcolm Thompson ), his eventual wife Olivia Baxter ( Zoe Bertram ), rebellious youth Peter Beckett ( Nick Hedstrom ), and his former school teacher Miss Elizabeth McKenzie ( June Salter ).

One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series.

When Donaldson v Beckett reached the House of Lords in 1774 Lord Camden was most strident in his rejection of the common law copyright, warning the Lords that should they vote in favour of common law copyright, effectively a perpetual copyright, " all our learning will be locked up in the hands of the Tonsons and the Lintots of the age ".

Beckett allowed 36 home runs, tied for second most in the majors.

Some critics consider this one of Beckett's most " perfect " plays: Beckett agonized over each individual line until they exactly matched his creative vision.

( Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes ) and “ irst produced in the Avignon Festival ( 21 July 1982 ) … Beckett considered it ‘ massacred .’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a political theme and, arguably, holds the title of Beckett's most optimistic work.

Joyce's high modernist style had its influence on coming generations of Irish novelists, most notably Samuel Beckett, Brian O ' Nolan, who published as Flann O ' Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, and Aidan Higgins.

The café became a haunt for some of Ireland ’ s most famous literary and artistic figures, including James Joyce ( who mentioned the cafe in his book “ Dubliners ”), Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett and Sean O ’ Casey.

Samuel Beckett is probably the most significant of these.

In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

In the early 1950s, he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda, amongst others.

Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative " Portrait Heads " of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early " Tinker " subjects and Grey period " Family " paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £ 1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.

In early drafts, Winnie set an alarm clock but Beckett later gave control of the bell to an unexplained external force like that in charge of the goad and the whistle in the two Act Without Words plays.

The generation of Irish poets who followed Yeats were, to simplify, divided between those who were influenced by his early Celtic style and those who followed such modernist figures as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, both of whom wrote poetry as well as their better known fiction and drama.

Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria.

Minnie a ' Beckett, who married Arthur Merric Boyd, founder of the Boyd artistic dynasty, was based at " The Grange " in Harkaway in her early years, and Jessie Traill ( 1881-1967 ), a noted Australian painter, set up a studio in the 1920s.

Stanwell Park Arts Theatre, or S. P. A. T ( formally Stanwell Park Amateur Theatre ) was founded in the early 1970s by Lauren Mitsak, Pam Beckett and others.

The Europa Press is important in the history of 20th century Irish poetry because it published early work by Reavey, Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin and Samuel Beckett and in a wider context of literary and surrealist history because it published the first ever collection of English language versions of work by Paul Éluard.

Beckett became a prolific child and young adult actor from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

Critics have aptly borrowed those terms to characterize the difference between Mr. Beckett, for example, and his erstwhile master James Joyce, himself a maximalist except in his early works.

In these early years Beckett was considered a close ally of Clement Attlee, alongside whom he had worked as a Labour Party agent before his election to Parliament.

Scene from The Happy Land, showing the scandalous impersonation of William Ewart Gladstone | Gladstone, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke | Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton | AyrtonSeveral of W. S. Gilbert's early plays were staged here, including Randall's Thumb, Creatures of Impulse ( with music by Alberto Randegger ), Great Expectations ( adapted from the Dickens novel ), and On Guard ( all in 1871 ); The Happy Land ( 1873, with Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; Gilbert's most controversial play ); The Wedding March, translated from Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie by Eugène Marin Labiche ( 1873 ); The Blue-Legged Lady, translated from La Dame aux Jambes d ' Azur by Labiche and Marc-Michel ( 1874 ); and Broken Hearts ( 1875 ).

Among those who wrote for Girodias in the early days were American author Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, John Glassco and Christopher Logue.

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the so-called avant-garde Parisian theater, " New Theater " or " Theatre of the Absurd " around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Most of Cellier's early works for the theatre, however, including Topsyturveydom ( 1874, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert ), The Tower of London ( 1875, Manchester ), Nell Gwynne ( 1876 ), Two Foster Brothers ( 1877, St. George's Hall, with a libretto by Gilbert Arthur à Beckett ), and Bella Donna ( 1878 ), had only modest success.

Over the years, Beckett clearly realised that the greater part of Godots success came down to the fact that it was open to a variety of readings and that this was not necessarily a bad thing.

The series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years in the future ( during the series ' original run ) who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to " put right what once went wrong ".

A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ossip Zadkine, Carmelo Gonzalez, Julio Gonzalez, Moise Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marios Varvoglis, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Jean Rhys, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Amedeo Modigliani, Ford Madox Ford, Toño Salazar, Ezra Pound, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Henri Rousseau, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Fort, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Angel Zarraga, Marevna, Tsuguharu Foujita, Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, André Breton, Alfonso Reyes, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran, Reginald Gray, Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas.

“ John Calder claims that Tynan commissioned it ; but Ruby Cohn disputes this, saying that Samuel Beckett had recited it to her years before, and that Calder published a fair copy but not the original, which SB had written on the paper tablecloth of a café .”

Beckett had wanted to work with Keaton several years earlier, when he offered him the role of Lucky in the American stage premiere of " Waiting for Godot ," but Buster turned it down.

His third wife ( 1991-present ) is Kelley Kuhr, 24 years his junior, with whom he has three children: Beckett Taylor ( b. 29 January 2004 ), Finnian Anderson ( b. 23 December 2006 ), and Seamus Hudson ( born 7 January 2009 ).

Rupert Evelyn Beckett by his wife Muriel Helen Florence Paget, daughter of Lord Berkeley Charles Sydney Paget, himself a younger son of the 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, whom he married in 13 December 1932, was an invalid for many years, suffering from clinical depression and anorexia nervosa, but she bore him his only child, a daughter, Fiona, in 1934.

Josh Beckett was the first Red Sox pitcher to hit a home run in 35 years — since the advent of the designated hitter rule — when he took Phillies ' pitcher Brett Myers deep during an interleague game on May 20, 2006.

On June 20, 2009, Beckett recorded his first complete game shutout in three years against the Atlanta Braves in a duel against former Red Sox pitcher Derek Lowe.

In Parliament he was a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee for three years from 2001 and has served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2003-2006 and Foreign Secretary 2006-2007 Margaret Beckett and Lord High Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 2007-2008 Jack Straw.

Preston Myers ( Ethan Embry ) plans to proclaim his love to his four-year secret crush, to whom he has never had the nerve to speak before, prom queen Amanda Beckett ( Jennifer Love Hewitt ), who has recently been dumped by her jock boyfriend, Mike Dexter ( Peter Facinelli ) who is targeted by nerd classmate William Lichter ( Charlie Korsmo ), who is plotting revenge against Mike for years of bullying.

Beckett pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years in exchange for testifying against Camilleri, who was found guilty and sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 155 years without the possibility of parole.

After exploding the ship owned by Lord Beckett, Will and Elizabeth spend his last day on land before his ten years at sea for their honeymoon.

Having published the theatrical works of Samuel Beckett for many years, the company acquired the rights to the remainder of his oeuvre from the publishing house of John Calder in 2007.

Beckett believes it to hold nothing more sinister than the mummy of an Assyrian king, a hypothesis confirmed by Dr. Johansen, who however brings to note that this king was attributed with 250 years worth of achievements.

In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet and Robert Bly.

Beckett Pokémon Unofficial Collector editor Sean Cooper stated that Lucario had grown popular in recent years due to his starring role in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and his appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

The writer Samuel Beckett went into hiding from the Germans in Roussillon during the years 1942-1945.

Archie Bell later released one solo album ( I Never Had It So Good-1981 ) on Beckett Records and continued to perform with The Drells for the next twenty years.