The Alan Schneider - Samuel Beckett collection (1955-1984) at Boston College represents a 30-year-long correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider, the director of every American premiere of a Beckett play and several world premieres.
The Alan Schneider-Samuel Beckett collection is primarily composed of correspondence between American stage director Alan Schneider and Samuel Beckett, with some additional correspondence between Schneider, Thornton Wilder, and others; also included are manuscripts and other material relating to Beckett's Film and a translation of Waiting for Godot by Thornton Wilder. This series is arranged in two subseries: A. Correspondence; B. Manuscripts.
Rich collection of correspondence on Beckett’s work.
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Harmon, Maurice. No Author Better Served. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
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Purchased in 1994 from multiple sources.