Secondary Sources

Listed are some useful secondary sources, including literature databases, Beckett journals, and community organizations. Secondary sources offer interpretations, analysis, discussions, and remixes of the primary source.

Literature Databases

• Humanities Index
  • Citation information including abstracts from humanities journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the United Kingdom or other English speaking countries.
• Literature Online (LION)
  • This platform brings together literary criticism, primary sources, author profiles, and reference works into a single searchable database.
• MLA International Bibliography
  • International research on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Includes scholarly journals, books, working papers, and conference papers.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
  • Brings together a wealth of interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period.

Journals about Samuel Beckett

• Beckettiana
  • Online Spanish journal dedicated to the work of Beckett
• The Beckett Circle
• The Beckett Review
  • Publication of the Samuel Beckett Society
• Journal of Beckett Studies
• Samuel Beckett Today

Handbooks

• The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (1994)
• The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (2015)

Organizations

• The Samuel Beckett Society
  • The Samuel Beckett Society is an international organization of scholars, students, directors, actors and others who share an interest in the work of Samuel Beckett.