This site was created November, 2000-February, 2001, at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Its purpose is to showcase a larger project underway by Professor Mitchell Lifton; an interactive DVD of the productions discussed and sampled here.

All images found on this site are copyrighted by Professor Lifton and Jacqueline Yves Lifton, and may not be used without express written permission. The production credits were transcribed from the tapes of production by Mike Karkowsky and Chris Bowling. The footnotes for the Godot clip come from Knowlson & McMillan, eds. The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot pp. 159 & 160, while the note for the Krapp clip comes from Knowlson, James, The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, V. III, Krapp's Last Tape, p. 37. The information in the abstracts on each page was gathered by Mike Karkowsky, from a consultation of several sources, listed here:

• http://www.levity.com/corduroy/beckett.htm
• http://www.unm.edu/~kfinstad/beckett.html
• http://beckett.english.ucsb.edu/
• http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm
• http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Theatre/Beckett/beckett.shtml
• http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/people/whoswho/beckett.shtm

In order to cite information contained here, standard MLA format is required. Include Mitchell Lifton as the author of the Website, "Beckett Directs Beckett: A Preview of the DVD Release" as the title, the complete URL of the page from which you are citing, the date it was last updated, and the date on which you visited it. If you have any questions about any of the information contained herein, please contact Professor Lifton at ml26@umail.umd.edu.

This site was created in HTML using NoteTab Light, a text editor. The graphics were created using Macromedia Fireworks. The images were scanned with the Epson Twain software, imported into Adobe Photoshop. The production clips were captured on a G4 Macintosh running Final Cut Pro and rendered with a QuickTime codec. The animated pages were created with Macromedia Flash. No other software was used during programming. The site was designed for optimum viewing on Netscape 4+ and IE 5+ for the Macintosh and the PC. If you experience difficulties with the site, or if you have comments or suggestions concerning site design, navigation, and development, please contact Jarom McDonald at jm422@umail.umd.edu.