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The Arthur Miller Society has been a member of the American Literature Association since 1996. This is an active and a well updated site, for international conferences have been held every year up until October 2006, and another one is being planned for 2007. The Arthur Miller Journal is published twice yearly.

Information on current productions, special events and releases in 2007 is listed. Teaching resources and guides for selected plays including articles, ideas for activities, brief synopses for major plays, fiction, non-fiction, and non-dramatic articles and other publications written by Miller himself are available as well. A neat chronological biography of Miller from his birth in 1915 to his death in 2005 is included in this site. The Arthur Miller Society Newsletter archive with abstracts, reviews, notes and queries, and teaching notes can be easily accessed just by clicking the hyper-links, and one can skim through the contents of each newsletter.

This is a very well-organized and user-friendly site.

URL : http://www.ibiblio.org/miller/

Keyword(s) : Arthur Miller, 20th century Drama, American Dramatist

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This site is maintained by the Modern Word, the web site devoted to exploring twentieth-century experimental literature. This homepage is easy to browse with a neat and simple design.

Visitors can get information on Samuel Beckett and his works easily. The homepage is well-categorized and contains a lot of in-depth information. By Looking over Beckett's bibliography, the reviews on his works, news, interviews, criticism, images, papers, articles, communities and features of Beckett drama including films and theater, this site provides not only general knowledge on Beckett but also in-depth academic resources.

Many good links are also provided. This site contains very insightful information on Beckett and his works including interesting articles and images. Highly recommended!

URL : http://www.themodernword.com/beckett

Keyword(s) : Samuel Beckett, Dramatists, 20th century, Drama, Dramatic criticism

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In this site, visitors can get useful information about the Samuel Beckett on-line resources and link pages.

This site provides not only a brief introduction to the life and works of Samuel Beckett but also on-line texts. The format used for this site is neat and makes easy to read. Visitors are attain other useful and interesting sites related with Beckett festival and events also such as 2006 Centennial Festivities. Information on Film and Video related with Beckett's works, interviews and papers on his works are also available.

Although this is a site not as easy to look through at first, there is an Index which makes it much easier to look through. The amount of information it provides you is worth a good look into this site. This site contains information on papers on Beckett, other sites and pages on the playwright, interviews on Wikipedia, on-line texts, on-line bookstores, films and videos, audio clips, and Beckett festivals and events, and information on the 2006 Centennial festivities. This is effective site to get link pages on Samuel Beckett and general overview of his works.


Since all the information and links are provided on one page, it is definitely not as easy as some other sites to look through. However, the amount of data collected and the different types of information including links, texts, photographs, comic strips, and audio and video clips which are not always easy to access are presented giving this site a unique and special meaning in studying Samuel Beckett.

URL : http://samuel-beckett.net/

Keyword(s) : Samuel Beckett , Dramatists, Dramatic criticism, 20th century, Drama

English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century
English Literature->Drama->Europe & others

This site was made in 1996 as a multi-resource site for people interested in Samuel Beckett. Since 2005, it is hosted by the University of Antwerp. It is a webpage that is not at all time consuming and gives effective information on Samuel Beckett.


The site contains news related to Samuel Beckett, a short biography, a timeline of the playwright's life and events, and biographical texts by other authors, Texts include publications by Beckett, other books written about his work, bibliographies, and journals that are related to Beckett. Pictures and photographs are also available giving the visitors a pleasure after reading the texts. Performance news on current and upcoming stage productions, tapes, videos, interviews, and films are also linked. Information on conferences, the Samuel Beckett Society, and links to other Samuel Beckett sites are listed as well.

Visitors are able to get biographical information, a useful bulletin board that features upcoming performances, and notes on criticism on this site. Links to other Beckett sites and authors and artists connected with Beckett are also available. Information on the stage, Beckett on tape and recent films are provided. This site is very helpful to get information on the conferences, special issues, volumes in progress on Samuel Beckett.


This is very effective site to get not only a general overview but also in-depth information on performances related to Samuel Becket's works. With several pictures that are effectively placed, the site is interesting and not tiresome to look through. It also has many quotes that continuously grabs attention from the visitors.

URL : http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*SBECKETT

Keyword(s) : Samuel Beckett, Drama, Modern Drama, 20th century, Dramatists

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English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
English Literature->Drama->By period->20th century

This site is made by an individual who could not find much about Tom Stoppard on the Internet and decided to make one on his/her own. Very simple and sticking to the basics, it is easy to find the kind of information you need in a short amount of time.


This homepage contains synopses of Stoppard's plays, and a Stoppard blog where more timely Stoppard-related news items are posted. A link to a biography note of the playwright is available. Links to information on Stoppard's writings in various genres are also accessible: stage, television, radio, movies, and fiction. Additional information includes where to send Stoppard personal letters, where you can get rights and permissions for amateur performances, and a site where you can order paperback versions of Stoppard's plays.

This site was last updated in 2005. However, with an overview about Stoppard, it is a good site to get information on the playwright in general and have a sense of who he is and what kind of works he has done.

URL : http://www.sff.net/people/mberry/stoppard.htp

Keyword(s) : Tom Stoppard, Drama, 20th century, Dramatists