The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

by Edited by John Pilling

• ISBN13: 9780521424134
• ISBN10: 0521424135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the "trilogy" and Murphy). Further essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theater directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. A chronology of Beckett's life, a list of French and English titles and a list for further reading provide additional reference material.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Chronology of Beckett's life

List of abbreviations

A note on titles

1. An endgame in aesthetics: Beckett as essayist Rupert Wood

2. Beckett's English fiction John Pilling

3. Three novels and four nouvelles Paul Davies

4. Waiting for Godot and Endgame: theatre as text Michael Worton

5. Stages of identity: from Krapp 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. Beckett's poems and verse translations 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.