Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project

Statistics


For all documents in all genetic editions, pie charts show the number of added, deleted and modified words. The word counts include paralipomena such as dates, calculations, shopping lists, and so on. A word that has been added and then deleted, is counted as and addition and a deletion. Similarly, a word that has been added, then modified and then deleted is counted three times. For this reason, the sum total of the added, deleted, modified and unchanged words is usually higher than the "Total words" as stipulated above each chart.

In addition to the pie charts for each genetic edition, we also provide two comparisons:

  • a comparison of all first draft versions of all works currently included in the BDMP side by side,
  • a comparison of the total words in the full genetic dossier of all works currently in the BDMP.

© 2025 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
Directors: Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon | Technical realisation: Vincent Neyt

Under the auspices of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, Texas) and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 313609.

Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and Comment dire / what is the word: © Samuel Beckett 1988, 1989 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The right of Samuel Beckett to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

L'Innommable / The Unnamable © Samuel Beckett 1953 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Krapp's Last Tape / La Dernière Bande © Samuel Beckett 1958 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Molloy © Samuel Beckett 1951 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Malone meurt / Malone Dies © Samuel Beckett 1951 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © Samuel Beckett 1952 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Fin de partie / Endgame © Samuel Beckett 1957 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Not I / Pas moi © Samuel Beckett 1973 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

That Time / Cette fois © Samuel Beckett 1976 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Footfalls / Pas © Samuel Beckett 1976 and the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

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