The Cambridge Companion to Beckett [Paperback]

This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett.Thirteen introductory essays cover every aspect of Samuel Beckett's work, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame), his prose fictions (e.g. the trilogy and Murphy), as well as his radio and television drama, theater directing and poetry.Thirteen introductory essays cover every aspect of Samuel Beckett's work, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame), his prose fictions (e.g. the trilogy and Murphy), as well as his radio and television drama, theater directing and poetry.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.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 RogerlS,