Author's Note and Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Long Beginning (1928-46)
'James Joyce's White Boy'
Poetic Beginnings: Translating
The Poetry of the Subject: Lost in Time
Chapter 2: Beginning with Prose
Chapter 3: Refusing Mastery
Consuming, Composting, Composing
Impasse: The Rhythm of Contradiction
Another Way Through: The Turning of Worm
Chapter 4: The Shorter Prose
Texts for Nothing: 'Under a Different Glass'
'Eternally I': The Mobile Text
Chapter 5: Drama from Eleutheria to Happy Days:
Eleutheria: Subverting the Spectator
Waiting for Godot: Doing Time
Krapp's Last Tape: 'Drowned in Dreams and Burning to be Gone'
Happy Days: The Dance of Love
Chapter 6: The Shorter Plays
Chapter 7: Broadcasting Beckett
Beckett on Screen: Projecting Meaning onto the Void
I: Samuel Beckett: Texts Cited
III: Archives and Collections Consulted
