List of contributors
Preface
Chronology of Beckett's life
List o f abbreviations
A note on titles
I An endgame of aesthetics: Beckett as essayist
RUPERT WOOD
2 Beckett's English fiction
JOHN PILLING
3 Three novels and four nouvelles: giving up the ghost be born at lasi
PAUL DAVIES
4 Waiting for Godot and Endgame: theatre as text
MICHAEL WORTON
5 Stages of identity: from Krapp's last tape to Play
PAUL LAWLEY
6 Beginning again: the post-narrative art of Texts for noting and
How it is
H. PORTER ABBOTT
7 The mediated Quixote: the radio and television plays, and Film
JONATHAN KALB
8 Dead heads: damnation-narration in the dramaticules'
KEIR ELAM
9 Disabled figures: from the Residua to Stirrings still
ANDREW RENTON
10 Beckett's poems and verse translations or: Beckett and the limits of
poetry
ROGER LITTLE
11 Beckett as director: the art of mastering failure
ANNA MCMULLAN
12 Beckett's bilingualism
ANN BEER
13 Beckett and the philosophers
P. J. MURPHY
Further reading
index of works by Beckett
General index