List of contributors
Preface
Chronology of Becketts life
List of abbreviations
A note on titles
1 An endgame of aesthetics:Beckett as essayist
RUPERT WOOD
2 Becketts English fiction
JOHN PILLING
3 Three novels and four nouvelles:giving up the ghost be born at
last PAUL DAVIES
PAUL DAVIES
4 Waiting for Godot and Endgame:theatre as text
MICHAEL WORTON
5 Stages of identity:from Krapps last tape to Play
PAUL LAWLEY
6 Beginning again:the post-narrative art of Texts for nothing 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 Becketts 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 Becketts bilingualism
ANN BEER
13 Beckett and the philosophers
P.J.MURPHY
Further reading
Index of works by Beckett
General index