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“... lover. If we are to judge from the extracts in biographies and the best moments in his letters to Schneider, Beckett’s huge correspondence will be one of the wonders of the age. The letters to Schneider are overwhelmingly concerned with the details of the production and reception of Beckett’s plays in America. About ...”

“... Endgame, with Jack MacGowran as Clov. Beckett was delighted by Magee’s performance. He wrote to Alan Schneider: ‘I want to tell you about Krapp in London … I am extremely pleased with the result and find it hard to imagine a better performance than that given by Magee both in his recording and his stage performance.’ It was during that production ...”

“... of charm. ‘Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me,’ he wrote to Alan Schneider in 1956, ‘in fact I feel much more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.’ The occasion was the mortifying flop of the first American Godot, directed by ...”

“... in Samuel Beckett’s Film. (When Keaton suggested doing a pencil sharpening bit, the director, Alan Schneider, said: ‘We don’t normally pad Beckett’s material.’ But Beckett’s material was Keaton.) ‘What I think it means is a man can keep away from everybody but he can’t get away from himself,’ Keaton said. Certainly, he couldn’t. He ...”

“... to be brought out,’ Beckett writes to Carlheinz Caspari, the first German director of Godot. To Alan Schneider, director of the American premiere, who had been having difficulty understanding the part of Pozzo, he remarks: Pozzo’s sudden changes of tone, mood, behaviour etc, may I suppose be related to what is going on about him, but their source is ...”

“... construction’ work like cancerous cells: once seeded, they replicate out of hand. Consider Alan Sokal’s hoax. In May 1996, Sokal, a physicist at New York University, published a learned pastiche in a special issue of Social Text, a more or less literary journal. Believing that some fashionable intellectuals have abandoned rigour for glory and empty ...”

“... of murder and destabilisation, and had shot down the chief of the Chilean General Staff, René Schneider, in the street, for nothing more than his legalistic opposition to a coup. There was an initial revulsion at this, on the part of the centre and even the Right, and the sheer voting strength and level-headedness of Popular Unity enabled it to postpone ...”

“... arts’ function in society today’. The Rongwrong Café (formerly of Hoxton Square) run by Hans Schneider, who ‘shops for his fresh product daily by bicycle’. Visit this café and you’ll be granted access to the finest ladies’ lavatories in the borough. The concept of the public convenience is as remote as the municipal horse-trough, the granite ...”