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