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| Series editors' preface | vii | |
| Acknowledgements | ix | |
| Abbreviations and referencing | xi | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part I | Life and Contexts | 3 |
| (a) | The early years: 1906-1927 | 5 |
| (b) | The young writer: 1928-1939 | 11 |
| (c) | War and Watt: 1939-1946 | 27 |
| (d) | 'The Siege in the Room': 1945-1953 | 30 |
| (e) | Fame: 1953-1969 | 35 |
| (f) | Last years: 1970-1989 | 43 |
| Further reading | 48 | |
| Part II | Work | 49 |
| (a) | The early prose: 1929-1945 | 51 |
| (i) | 'Assumption' to More Pricks than Kicks | 51 |
| (ii) | Murphy | 57 |
| (iii) | Watt | 60 |
| Further reading | 62 | |
| (b) | Beckett's post-war work: 1945-1960 | 63 |
| (i) | The turn to monologue | 63 |
| (ii) | Mercier and Camier and the Nouvelles | 64 |
| (iii) | The Trilogy | 66 |
| (iv) | Eleutheria and Waiting for Godot | 73 |
| (v) | Endgame | 76 |
| (vi) | Post-Endgame drama | 78 |
| (vii) | Post-Trilogy prose and How It Is | 80 |
| (viii) | Happy Days | 82 |
| Further reading | 84 | |
| (c) | The later work: 1960-1989 | 84 |
| (i) | Experiments in prose | 85 |
| (ii) | Experiments in theatre | 88 |
| (iii) | Experiments in radio, film and television | 93 |
| (iv) | Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho and Stirrings Still | 94 |
| Further reading | 97 | |
| (d) | Beckett the poet | 98 |
| Further reading | 100 | |
| Part III | Criticism | 101 |
| (a) | Beckett the Cartesian: 1959-1969 | 105 |
| (b) | The Beckett industry: 1970-1980 | 125 |
| (i) | General studies | 126 |
| (ii) | Prose | 136 |
| (iii) | Drama/theatre | 139 |
| (iv) | Philosophical/theoretical studies | 144 |
| (v) | Poetry/media/other studies | 150 |
| (c) | Theoretical Beckett: 1980-1995 | 152 |
| (i) | Structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism | 154 |
| (ii) | Feminist criticism | 171 |
| (iii) | Psychoanalytic/mythic criticism | 175 |
| (iv) | Humanist/introductory/miscellaneous criticism | 180 |
| (d) | Recent criticism: 1995- | 194 |
| (e) | Biographical studies | 198 |
| Further reading | 202 | |
| Chronology | 203 | |
| Bibliography | 206 | |
| Index | 214 |
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Jacqueline Campbell
reviewed Samuel Beckett on July 26, 2011
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