| Contents | |
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| Introduction | |
| by Anna McMullan and S.E. Wilmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
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| Section A / Interconnections | |
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| Beckett's Bodies, or Dr. Johnson's "Anatomy Lesson" | |
| by Linda Ben-Zvi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 9 |
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| Beckett and Nothing | |
| by Terry Eagleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 32 |
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| Yeats and Beckett: The Ghosts in the Machines | |
| by Terence Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 40 |
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| "Who Can Shave an Egg?": Foreign Tongues and Primal Sounds in Mallarme and Beckett | |
| by Marina Warner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 53 |
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| Samuel Brecht and Bertolt Beckett: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as Educators | |
| by Antony Tatlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 82 |
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| Among the Deepening Shades: The Beckettian Moment(um) and the Brechtian Arrest | |
| by Herbert Blau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 115 |
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| The Great Hole of History: "Natural" Catastrophe and Liturgical Silence | |
| by Joseph Roach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 134 |
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| Section B / Beckett in Practice | |
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| Revising Himself: Samuel Beckett and the Art of Self-Collaboration | |
| by S.E. Gontarski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 153 |
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| "They want to be entertained": Performing Beckett | |
| by Barry McGovern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 173 |
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| Beckett's "Beckett": So Many Words for Silence | |
| by Enoch Brater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 190 |
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| Beckett's Trinities | |
| by Ruby Cohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 205 |
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| Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 217 |
| Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 227 |
| Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 233 |