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Definition of Samuel 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 Samuel Beckett

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Past and Present of Clinton County, Michigan by Sherman B. Daboll, Dean W. Kelley (1906)
"There Samuel Beckett was reared to manhood and when a young man he came west to ... It was in that county that Samuel Beckett was married to Miss Mary Ann ..."

2. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, by the Vice by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Walter de Longueville Giffard, John Stuart (1862)
"... or any of his first, to give to my son Samuel Beckett Chadwick 2000/., ... and to pay such interest annually to my son receive their Samuel Beckett ..."

3. Adventure Guide to Ireland by Tina Neylon (2004)
"Samuel Beckett, both novelist and dramatist, was one of the most influential ... Nobel Prize Winners George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and poets WB Yeats ..."

4. Cheshire Notes and Queries (1887)
"Marriage certificate of Samuel Beckett and Mary ... The examination of Samuel Beckett as to his place jf settlement before H. Wright and Samuel Finney, ..."

5. Ireland Pocket Adventures by Tina Neylon (2007)
"Samuel Beckett, both novelist and dramatist, was one of the most ... Samuel Beckett, and poets WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney were all awarded the Nobel Prize ..."

6. Past and Present of Clinton County, Michigan by Sherman B. Daboll, Dean W. Kelley (1906)
"There Samuel Beckett was reared to manhood and when a young man he came west to ... It was in that county that Samuel Beckett was married to Miss Mary Ann ..."

7. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, by the Vice by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Walter de Longueville Giffard, John Stuart (1862)
"... or any of his first, to give to my son Samuel Beckett Chadwick 2000/., ... and to pay such interest annually to my son receive their Samuel Beckett ..."

8. Adventure Guide to Ireland by Tina Neylon (2004)
"Samuel Beckett, both novelist and dramatist, was one of the most influential ... Nobel Prize Winners George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and poets WB Yeats ..."

9. Cheshire Notes and Queries (1887)
"Marriage certificate of Samuel Beckett and Mary ... The examination of Samuel Beckett as to his place jf settlement before H. Wright and Samuel Finney, ..."

10. Ireland Pocket Adventures by Tina Neylon (2007)
"Samuel Beckett, both novelist and dramatist, was one of the most ... Samuel Beckett, and poets WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney were all awarded the Nobel Prize ..."

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