Beckett's Happy days: A manuscript study

by S.E. Gontarski

SamuelBeckett's "Happy Days":  A ManuscriptStudy traces development of Samuel Beckett's final two-act play, composed inEnglish between October 1960 and May 1961, through manuscript notebooks,holographs and typescript drafts to the final published text. The analysis detailsBeckett's most salient alterations and revisions including his development ofthe work's tapestry of fragmented literary allusions.

86 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

S.E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships, has been Guest Editor of the following: American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Modern Fiction Studies and most recently Drammaturgia. He is the author or editor of 29 books, including Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1928-1989 (1996), The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV: The Shorter Plays (1999), A Companion To Samuel Beckett (2010), Beckett after Beckett (ed. with Anthony Uhlmann, 2006), The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Life, Works, and Thought (with C. J. Ackerly, 2006), The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 (2001), Modernism, Censorship and the Politics of Publishing (2000). He is also General Editor of two book series: "Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature and Philosophy" and "Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance."