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www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/beckett/
This Channel 4 site includes a critical introduction to the plays, a chronology of Beckett's life and information about the origins of the Beckett on Film project and the films' producers. Includes including revealing interviews with many of the directors and actors, together with stills from the films.

www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/DRAMA/beckettCatas.html
E-text of Catastrophe.

www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num1112/219-239_PLAYREVIEWS.PDF
Review of Beckett plays performed in New York in 1983 under the direction of Alan Schneider: Catastrophe, Ohio Impromptu and What Where. Reviewed by John Calder in 'Journal of Beckett Studies', 1989.

http://beckett.english.ucsb.edu/timeline.html
A detailed, illustrated chronology of Beckett's life and works.

www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm
Brief biographical summary with external links to similar overviews of related writers such as Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Alfred Jarry and Harold Pinter.

http://samuel-beckett.net/
Major and apparently comprehensive portal to all things by and about Beckett and his works.

http://beckett.english.ucsb.edu/
Well-designed academic resource concerning performances, images, texts by and about Beckett, conference details and bulletin board. Links are provided to sites about other writers and artists connected with Beckett. Regularly updated.