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Product Description From All That Fall and Embers to Cascando, many of Samuel Beckett's most beguiling works were written for radio broadcast. The Making of Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays is a comprehensive reference guide to the manuscript and broadcast histories of these plays. The book includes: · A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including alternative drafts, broadcast scripts and notebook pages · A critical reconstruction of the history of these texts, from their genesis through the processes of composition to their full publication and broadcast history · A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. About the Author Pim Verhulst is Research Assistant in English at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Pim Verhulst is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp's Centre for Manuscript Genetics and a team member of the ERC-funded project 'Creative Undoing and Textual Scholarship: A Rapprochement Between Genetic Criticism and Scholarly Editing' (CUTS), supervised by Dirk Van Hulle. His teaching experience includes courses on Academic Writing, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Modernism, English Literary History and Culture. He has published articles on genetic criticism, scholarly editing, bilingualism, (self-)translation, Modernism and radio drama in the journals Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, Variants, English Text Construction and the Journal of Beckett Studies, of which he is an assistant editor. He has also contributed to The New Cambridge Compa