This Companion captures the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Becketts work world-wide.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism — The Questions We Ask - S. E. Gontarski
• Part 1: Art and Aesthetics
• 1 ‘Deux Besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma - C. J. Ackerley
• Plates
• 2 ‘Siege Laid Again’: Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage - David Lloyd
• 3 Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot - Ulrika Maude
• 4 Pain Degree Zero - Sam Slote
• Part 2: Fictions
• 5 Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels - Paul Stewart
• 6 A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Three Novels - Andrew V. McFeaters
• 7 Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett's Short Prose - Tomasz Wiśniewski
• Part 3: A European Context
• 8 French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945—52 - Andrew Gibson
• 9 Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing - John Pilling
• 10 Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation - Jean-Michel Rebaté
• 11 Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialogue - Anthony Uhlmann
• 12 Gloria SMH and Beckett's Linguistic Encryptions - Laura Salisbury
• 13 ‘I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’ (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde - Peter Fifield
• 14 Beckett and Contemporary French Literature - Sjef Houppermans
• Part 4: An Irish Context
• 15 The ‘Irish’ Translation of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot - Anthony Roche
• 16 Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in 1930s Dublin - Emilie Morin
• 17 ‘Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day’: Beckett and the Irish Big House - Seàn Kennedy
• Part 5: Film, Radio and Television
• 18 A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy - Graley Herren
• 19 ‘The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett's Radio Plays - Everett C. Frost
• Part 6: Language/Writing
• 20 ‘Was That a Point?’: Beckett's Punctuation - Steven Connor
• 21 Beckett's Unpublished Canon - Mark Nixon
• 22 Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship - Dirk Van Hulle
• 23 Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading - Adam Piette
• Part 7: Philosophies
• 24 Beckett and Philosophy - Matthew Feldman
• 25 ‘Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental Empiricism - S. E. Gontarski
• 26 Beckett, Modernism and Christianity - Erik Tonning
• Part 8: Theatre and Performance
• 27 ‘Oh Lovely Art’: Beckett and Music - David Tucker
• 28 Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake in Beckett's Catastrophe - Laura Peja
• 29 Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett's ‘A Piece of Monologue’ Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce - John Paul Riquelme
• 30 Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert's Contribution to Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Aesthetics - Anna McMullan
• 31 Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude — Beckett's Endgame - Annamaria Cascetta
• 32 Performing the Formless - Geneviève Chevallier
• Part 9: Global Beckett
• 33 ‘Facing Other Windows’: Beckett in Brazil - Fàbio de Souza Andrade
• 34 Beckett in Belgrade - Predrag Todorovic
• 35 ‘Struggling With a Dead Language’: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s - Mariko Hori Tanaka
• List of Contributors