Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project

Welcome

The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading), the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (University of Oxford), and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett's works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research: the project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett's manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, a search engine, and an analysis of the textual genesis of his works.


Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

We are delighted to announce the publication of our tenth genetic edition: Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas. The accompanying monograph on its genesis is available through Bloomsbury Academic.


Practigal Guide

If you are interested in making a digital edition, here is a practical guide to digital genetic editing.


MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project

On 5 December 2018, the Modern Language Association of America announced the BDMP as the winner of the eleventh Modern Language Association Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project.

Read more on our News & Updates page.


Samuel Beckett: A Bibliography

We are honoured to announce the publication of the first part of Breon Mitchell's Samuel Beckett: A Bibliography. Part I: The Early Years: 1929-1950.


Beckett Digital Library (BDL)

We are delighted to announce the publication of the Beckett Digital Library. The accompanying monograph Samuel Beckett's Library, written by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon is available through Cambridge University Press.

© 2021 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
Directors: Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon | Technical realisation: Vincent Neyt

Under the auspices of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, Texas) and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 313609.

Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word: © Samuel Beckett 1988, 1989 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The right of Samuel Beckett to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

L'Innommable / The Unnamable © Samuel Beckett 1953 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande © Samuel Beckett 1958 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Molloy © Samuel Beckett 1951 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Malone meurt / Malone Dies © Samuel Beckett 1951 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © Samuel Beckett 1952 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Fin de partie / Endgame © Samuel Beckett 1957 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Not I / Pas moi © Samuel Beckett 1973 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

That Time / Cette fois © Samuel Beckett 1976 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Footfalls / Pas © Samuel Beckett 1976 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means without permission in writing from the publisher and from the Estate of Samuel Beckett.