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Book SynopsisThe author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editi
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Photographs, pg. viii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*1 Introduction, pg. 1*2. At This Place, pg. 17*3. At This Moment in Time, pg. 34*4. All Mankind Is Us: Soliloquizers, pg. 58*5. All Mankind Is Us: Fictionalizers, pg. 76*6. The Churn of Stale Words: Repetitions, pg. 96*7. The Play That Wasn't Written: Human Wishes, pg. 143*8. The Play That Wasn't Staged: Eleutheria, pg. 163*9. The Play That Was Rewritten: Fin de partie, pg. 173*10. Some Beckett Theatricians, pg. 189*11. Jumping Beckett's Genres, pg. 207*12. Beckett Directs, pg. 230*Notes, pg. 281*Bibliography of Works Cited, pg. 289*APPENDIX A. Beckett as Playwright, pg. 293*APPENDIX B. Beckett as Stage Director, pg. 294*APPENDIX C. Human Wishes, pg. 295*Index, pg. 307
