Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland

Raymond Federman and John Fletcher, Samuel Beckett: His Works and His Critics (1970)

Richard N. Coe, Beckett (1964)

Vivian Mercier, Beckett/Beckett (1977)

Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978, reissued 1993)

Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett (1996)

Lois Gordon, The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (1996)

James Knowlson, Damned to Fame (1996)

Hugh Kenner, Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study, new ed. (1968)

Ruby Cohn, Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut (1962)

John Fletcher, The Novels of Samuel Beckett, 2nd ed. (1970)

Rubin Rabinowvitz, The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction (1984)

Andrew K. Kennedy, Samuel Beckett (1989)

Alan Astro, Understanding Samuel Beckett (1990)

Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd, 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged (1980, reissued 1991)

John Fletcher and John Spurling, Beckett the Playwright, 3rd expanded ed. (1985)

Raymond Federman, Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Early Fiction (1965)

Lawrence E. Harvey, Samuel Beckett: Poet & Critic (1970)

Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. by Martin Esslin (1965)

Samuel Beckett Now, ed. by Melvin J. Friedman, 2nd ed. (1975)

John Pilling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett (1994)
Frederick J Hoffman, Samuel Beckett: The Language of Self, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962.

Ronald Hayman, Samuel Beckett, London: Heinemann, 1968.

Michael Robinson, The Long Sonata of the Dead: A study of Samuel Beckett, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970.

Raymond Federman and John Fletcher, Samuel Beckett: His Work and His Critics, Berkley (CA): University of California Press, 1970

Melvin J. Friedman (ed) Samuel Beckett Now: Critical Approaches to his Novels, Poetry, and Plays, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Francis Doherty, Samuel Beckett, London: Hutchinson, 1971.

Colin Duckworth, Angels of Darkness: Dramatic Effect in Beckett with Special Reference to Ionesco, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1972.

John Fletcher, Beckett: A Study of his Plays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Brian Finney, 'How It Is': A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction, London: Covent Garden Press, 1972.

Al Alvarez, Samuel Beckett, New York: Viking, 1973.

Ruby Cohn, Back to Beckett, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Hugh Kenner, A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett, 1973.

H. Porter Abbott, The Fiction of Samuel Beckett, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973.

Ruby Cohn (ed), Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Criticism, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Hannah-Case Copeland, Art and the Artist in the works of Samuel Beckett, Paris: Mouton, 1975.

James Eliopulos, Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Language, The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Katherine Worth (ed), Beckett the Shape Changer, London: Routledge, 1975.

John Pilling, Samuel Beckett, 1976.

S.E. Gontarski, Beckett's 'Happy Days': A Manuscript Study, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977.

Beryl Fletcher et al, A Student's Guide to The Plays of Samuel Beckett, London: Faber and Faber, 1978.

James Knowlson and John Pilling, Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett, 1979.

Robin J. Davis, Samuel Beckett: Checklist and Index of his Published Works, Stirling: The Library: University of Stirling, 1979.

Barbara R. Gluck, Beckett and Joyce: Friendship and Fiction, Lewisberg (PA): Bucknell University Press, 1979.

Lawrence Graver and Raymond Federman, Samuel beckett: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1979.

Ruby Cohn, Just Play: Beckett's Theatre, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Helene L. Baldwin, Samuel Beckett's Real Silence, 1981.

John C. DiPierro, Structures in Beckett's 'Watt', York (SC): French Literature Publications, 1981.

J.E. Dearlove, Accommodating the Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Nonrelational Art, Durham: Duke University Press, 1982.

Lance St. John Butler, Samuel Beckett and the Meaning of Being: A Study in Ontological Parable, 1984.

Virginia Cooke, Beckett on File, London: Methuen, 1985.

S.E. Gontarski, The Intent of 'Undoing' in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Texts, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Enoch Brater (ed), Beckett at 80/Beckett in Context, 1986.

S.E. Gontarski (ed) On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, New York: Grove Press, 1986.

John Calder (ed), As No Other Dare Fail: for Samuel Beckett on his 80th birthday, 1986.

James Knowlson (ed), Samuel Beckett: A Celebration, 1986.

Eoin O'Brien (ed), The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett's Ireland, 1986.

Peter Gidal, Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Work of Samuel Beckett, London: Macmillan, 1986.

Ruby Cohn (ed) Samuel Beckett: 'Waiting for Godot': A Casebook, London: Macmillan, 1987.

Enoch Brater, Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theatre, 1987.

James Acheson and Kateryna Arthur (eds), Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company, London: Macmillan, 1987.

Alan Warren Friedman et al, Beckett Translating/ Translating Beckett, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.

Jane Alison Hale, The Broken Window: Beckett's Dramatic Perspective, West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 1987.

Steven Connor, Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text, Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.

Robin J. Davis and Lance St. John Butler (eds) Make Sense Who May: Essays on Samuel Beckett's Later Works, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988.

Mary A. Doll, Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988.

Brian Fitch, Beckett and Babel: An Investigation into the Status of the Bilingual Work, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

Lawrence Graver, Samuel Beckett: 'Waiting for Godot', London: Thames and Hudson 1989.

Jonathan Kalb, Beckett in Performance, 1989.

Katherine Worth, 'Waiting for Godot' and 'Happy Days', Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990.

M.R. Axelrod, The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett, and Cortazar, 1992.

Steven Connor, 'Waiting for Godot' and 'Endgame', New York: St Martin's Press, 1992.

Anna McMullan, Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama, 1993.

Eyal Amiran, Wandering and Home: Beckett's Metaphysical Narrative, University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1993.

Paul Davies, The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and Imagination, Toronto: Associated University Press, 1994.

Christopher Ricks, Beckett's Dying Words, 1995.

H. Porter Abbott, Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, London: Harper-Collins, 1996.

James Acheson, Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama, and Early Fiction, New York: St Martin's Press, 1997.

Thomas Coisineau, 'Waiting for Godot': Form in Movement, Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Anthony Farrow, Early Beckett: Art and Allusion in 'More Pricks than Kicks' and 'Murphy', Try (NY): Whitson, 1991.

S.E. Gontarski (ed) The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol 2: 'Endgame', London: Faber and Faber, 1992.

S.E. Gontarski (ed) The Beckett Studies Reader, Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1993.

S.E. Gontarski (ed) The Theatrical Notesbooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol 4: The Shorter Plays, London: Faber and Faber, 1993.

Lois Gordon, The World of Samuel Beckett, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.