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Acknowledgements

Note on editions

Introduction

Chapter 1 Beckett's life

Chapter 2 Cultural and intellectual

      contexts

Chapter 3 Plays

Waiting for Godot

Endgame

Radio plays: All That Fall and Embers

Krapp's Last Tape

Happy Days

Chapter 4 Prose works

More Pricks than Kicks

Murphy

Watt

The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

How It Is

Chapter 5 Beckett criticism

Notes

Guide to further reading

Index