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Definition of Beckett
1. Noun. A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989).
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Literary usage of Beckett
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1901)
"TBB À Beckett, GILBERT ARTHUR "-1891), writer for ' Punch ' and for the stage,
... In the following year À Beckett furnished the ' legend ' to Herman ..."
2. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"Mr. Arthur a Beckett started a satirico-humorous paper of great ability and ...
After a few ARTHUR A Beckett. years of an active journalistic career (From ..."
3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"Soak v. Sw</t, 70 Md. 515; 14 Am. St. Rep. 381, and note. Beckett v. ...
as-provided in said notes; that said William D. Beckett and John, M. Beckett ..."
4. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry by Bernard Burke (1891)
"Mornington, Victoria, 18th June, 1867, registered at Berwick under the name of
Arthur St. Thomas à Beckett. 1. Emily, b. at Hyde Park-gate, со. ..."
5. Journal by United States, Congress (1912)
"Beckett, Bennink, Bliss, Bohnett, Brown, Chandler, Crosby, Flint, Freeman, Gaylord,
... Beckett. Benedict, Bliss, Bohnett, Brown, Butler, Callaghan, ..."
6. Early Editions: A Bibliographical Survey of the Works of Some Popular Modern by John Herbert Slater (1894)
"GILBERT ABBOTT 1 Beckett (born 1811, died 1856) is better known as a ... Gilbert u
Beckett was on the original staff of Punch, and it is probable that he ..."
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