This landmark collection showcases the diversity of Samuel Beckett’s creative output with 35 newly written chapters by major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers.

Introduction “Towards a Minoritarian Criticism: The Questions We Ask”, S. E. Gontarski Art & Aesthetics ”Deux besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma”, C. J. Ackerley “Siege Laid again: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage”, David Lloyd “Convulsive Aesthetics: “Beckett, Charcot, Chaplin”, Ulrika Maude “Pain Degree Zero”, Sam Slote Fictions "Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels", Paul Stewart “A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity: Samuel Beckett’s Three Novels”, Andrew McFeaters “Evening, Night, and other Shades of Dark: Beckett’s Short Prose”, Tomasz Wisniewski A European Context “French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945-52”, Andrew Gibson “Beckett/Sade: Texts for Nothing”, John Pilling "Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation", Jean-Michel Rabaté “Beckett, Duthuit, and Ongoing Dialogue”, Anthony Uhlmann “Gloria SMH and Beckett’s Linguistic Encryptions”, Laura Salisbury "’I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’: Samuel Beckett and the Inter-War Avant-garde”, Peter Fifield “Beckett and Contemporary French Literature”, Sjef Houpermans An Irish Context "Beckett and the ‘Irish’ Translation of Godot", Anthony Roche “Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in 1930s Dublin”, Emilie Morin “’Bid Us Sigh on’: Beckett and the Irish Big House”, Sean Kennedy Film, Radio & Television "A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy.", Graley Herren “’The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett’s Radio Plays”, Everett C. Frost Language / Writing “Was That a Point? Beckett's Punctuation”, Steven Connor “Beckett's Unpublished Canon”, Mark Nixon “Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship”, Dirk van Hulle “Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading”, Adam Piette Philosophies “Beckett and Philosophy”, Matthew Feldman “’Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday, and Transcendental Empiricism”, S. E. Gontarski "Beckett, Modernism and Christianity", Erik Tonning Theatre & Performance “‘Oh lovely Art’: Beckett and Music”, David Tucker “Victimized Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake in Beckett’s Catastrophe”, Laura Peja "Beyond Eliot and Joyce: Restaging Solo Literary Performance in A Piece of Monologue", John Paul Riquelme “Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert’s Contribution to Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Aesthetics”, Anna McMullan “Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude”, Annamaria Cascetta “Performing the Formless”, Geneviève Chevallier Global Beckett "Facing other Windows: Beckett in South America", Fábio de Souza Andrade “Beckett in Belgrade”, Predrag Todorovic; “Struggling With a Dead Language”: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-garde Theatre in the 1960s”, Mariko Hori Tanaka