List of contributors
Preface
Chronology of Beckett』s life
List of abbreviations
A note on titles
1 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 last
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 nothing and How it is
H.PORTER ABBOTT
7 The mediated Quixore:the radio and television plays,and film
JOHATHAN 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
Furtber reading
Index of works by Beckett
General index