Stephen Watt is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, Bloomington.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beckett, our contemporary; 1. Beckett and the 'Beckettian'; 2. The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play and Brian Friel's Beckettian turn; 3. Bernard MacLaverty: the 'Troubles,' late modernism, and the Beckettian; 4. 'Getting round' Beckett: Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon; 5. Specters of Beckett: Marina Carr and the 'other' Sam; Coda: on retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction; Bibliography; Index.

Stephen Watt is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, Bloomington.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beckett, our contemporary; 1. Beckett and the 'Beckettian'; 2. The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play and Brian Friel's Beckettian turn; 3. Bernard MacLaverty: the 'Troubles,' late modernism, and the Beckettian; 4. 'Getting round' Beckett: Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon; 5. Specters of Beckett: Marina Carr and the 'other' Sam; Coda: on retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction; Bibliography; Index.

Stephen Watt is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, Bloomington.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beckett, our contemporary; 1. Beckett and the 'Beckettian'; 2. The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play and Brian Friel's Beckettian turn; 3. Bernard MacLaverty: the 'Troubles,' late modernism, and the Beckettian; 4. 'Getting round' Beckett: Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon; 5. Specters of Beckett: Marina Carr and the 'other' Sam; Coda: on retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction; Bibliography; Index.