Beckett on Film

Beckett : A chronology

1906	Samuel Barclay Beckett is born on 13 April to a middle-class Protestant family, Dublin, Ireland.
1920-1923	Attends Portora Royal School (Northern Ireland).
1923-1927	BA (Modern Literature: French and Italian) Trinity College, Dublin.
1928	Joins teaching staff of Campbell College, Belfast.
1928-1930	Exchange teacher (English), École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
1930-1932	Assistant lecturer (French), Trinity College, Dublin.
1931	First drama sketch - Le Kid (parody).
1931	Literary criticism Proust published.
1933	Father dies.
1934	Short story collection More Pricks Than Kicks published.
1935	Verse Echoís Bones and Other Precipitates published.
1938	Novel Murphy published. Beckett is stabbed in the street by a stranger and nursed by Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
1942	Member of French Resistance; escapes Gestapo.
1945-1946	Employed by Red Cross, Normandy.
1947	Drama Eleutheria (still unperformed) and the novel Molloy completed.
1949	En attendant Godot and the novel Malone Dies completed.
1950	Novel The Unnamable completed. Mother dies.
1951	Molloy and Malone Dies published, Paris.
1952	En attendant Godot published, Paris.
1953	En attendant Godot première, Paris; novel, Watt, published.
1954	Waiting for Godot published in English, New York.
1955	Waiting for Godot premièred, London
1956	Act Without Words 1 and 11 written.
1957	All That Fall radio play broadcast by BBC; Endgame written and premièred, London; Act Without Words 1 premièred, London.
1958	Krapp's Last Tape written and premièred, London.
1959	BBC radio play Embers broadcast; awarded Italia Prize.
Late 1950s	Rough for Theatre I and Rough for Theatre II written.
1960	Act Without Words II premièred, London; Happy Days written.
1961	Happy Days premièred, New York; Rough for Radio 1 written. Beckett marries Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil.
1962	Radio play Words and Music broadcast by BBC.
1963-1964	Play written and premièred in West Germany; radio play Cascando broadcast in France.
1965	Film, Beckett's only film, starring Buster Keaton, premièred in New York; Come and Go written.
1966	Eh Joe television play broadcast, BBC London.
1968	Come and Go premièred, Dublin.
1969	Nobel Prize for Literature awarded; Breath written and premièred in New York.
1972	Not I written and premièred, New York.
1974-75	That Time written.
1975	Footfalls written.
1975	Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II and Rough for Radio 11 first published in English, That Time and Footfalls published.
1977	... but the clouds ... television play broadcast, BBC London.
1979	Ghost Trio television play broadcast, BBC London; A Piece of Monologue written.
1980	A Piece of Monologue premièred, New York; Rockaby and Ohio Impromptu written.
1981	Rockaby premièred, New York; Ohio Impromptu premièred, Ohio State University.
1982	Catastrophe written and premièred in Avignon, France.
1983	What Where written and premièred in New York.
1989	Beckett dies on 22 December in Paris.