Introduction/Avant-propos Announcement/Annonce PART 1: “Historicising Beckett” Seán KENNEDY: Introduction to “Historicising Beckett” Sinéad MOONEY: Kicking against the Thermolaters: Beckett’s “Recent Irish Poetry” David A. HATCH: Beckett in Transition: Three Dialogues, Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate Rina KIM: Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett’s Writing Patrick BIXBY: Watt Kind of Man are you? Beckettian Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish Identity Mark QUIGLEY: Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity James MCNAUGHTON: Beckett, German Fascism, and History: The Futility of Protest Seán KENNEDY: Cultural Memory in Mercier and Camier: The Fate of Noel Lemass PART 2: Performing Beckett Takeshi KAWASHIMA: The Resistance of Seeing in Beckett’s Drama: Self-Perception and Becoming Imperceptible Antje DIEDRICH: Performance as Rehearsal: George Tabori’s Staging of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Endgame Julie CAMPBELL: The Entrapment of the Female Body in Beckett’s Plays in Relation to Jung’s Third Tavistock Lecture Dimitri SOENEN : La résistance des restes : l’appartenance ‘médiatique’ des ‘Shorter Plays’ Angela MOORJANI: Directing or In-Directing Beckett: Or What Is Wrong with Catastrophe’s Director? Christina ADAMOU: What Where Revisited: Answering the Question Juliette Taylor: “Pidgin Bullskritt”: The Performance of France in Beckett’s Trilogy Thomas MANSELL: Different Music: Beckett’s Theatrical Conduct Catherine LAWS: Beckett and Kurtág. PART 3: The Child in Beckett’s Work Daniela CASELLI: Introduction Stephen THOMSON: “It’s not my Fault Sir”: The Child, Presence and Stage Space in Beckett’s Theatre Daniela CASELLI: Tiny Little Things in Beckett’s Company Jonathan BIGNELL: How to Watch Television? Pedagogy and Paedocracy in Beckett’s Television Plays PART 4: Free Space Diane LÜSCHER-MORATA: “It is not me”. From a refusal to speak of oneself to X, “paradigm of human kind” Spyridoula ATHANASOPOULOU-KYPRIOU: Not I and/or the Art of Living Geoff HAMILTON: Annihilating all that’s made. Beckett’s Molloy and The Pastoral Tradition Matthew James VECHINSKI: “I could not cling to it”: Potentiality in L’Innommable and The Unnamable – A Dual-Language Study Davyd MELNYK: Never Been Properly Jung.