What Would Beckett Have Thought Of All This?

Samuel Beckett is getting renewed attention this year on the 100th anniversary of his birth. But the author notoriously didn’t like cult of celebrity that engulfed him. So what would he have thought of all this? “Theatergoers have laughed about how the famously reclusive author would have reacted to the sprawling festival, which by some counts is the sixth major posthumous celebration of his work. He wouldn’t have turned up at a single event, and he couldn’t have borne the hoopla element.”