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