James Little is a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University, Prague and Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Little’s references to recent performances of Beckett’s plays in different parts of the world (be it Not I or Godot) testify to their immense potential to resonate with their audiences in various political and cultural contexts. His comprehensive and extremely well-researched investigation of Beckett's creation of confined spaces, “whether onstage or on the page” (207), by means of the genetic-critical methodology, is illuminating, persuasive and extremely well-written, and as such is a valuable scholarly resource both within and beyond Beckett studies.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on the TextIntroduction: Beckett’s Spatial Politics1 Images of Confinement: Proust, Dream of Fair to Middling Women2 The Ethics of Writing Confinement: ‘Dante and the Lobster’, ‘Fingal’, Murphy3 ‘Vaguening’ Confinement: Watt4 ‘Undoing’ Confinement: ‘The End’, ‘The Expelled’, Molloy, Malone Dies5 Political Pentimenti: Waiting for Godot, Endgame6 Learning to Say ‘Not I’: The Unnamable7 Redoing Not I in ‘Non-A’8 ‘The Limits of Interpretation’: Imagination Dead Imagine, All Strange Away 9 The ‘Anethics’ of Staging Confinement: ‘Mongrel Mime’, CatastropheConclusion: ‘Mongrel’ SpaceWorks Cited

James Little is a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University, Prague and Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Little’s references to recent performances of Beckett’s plays in different parts of the world (be it Not I or Godot) testify to their immense potential to resonate with their audiences in various political and cultural contexts. His comprehensive and extremely well-researched investigation of Beckett's creation of confined spaces, “whether onstage or on the page” (207), by means of the genetic-critical methodology, is illuminating, persuasive and extremely well-written, and as such is a valuable scholarly resource both within and beyond Beckett studies.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on the TextIntroduction: Beckett’s Spatial Politics1 Images of Confinement: Proust, Dream of Fair to Middling Women2 The Ethics of Writing Confinement: ‘Dante and the Lobster’, ‘Fingal’, Murphy3 ‘Vaguening’ Confinement: Watt4 ‘Undoing’ Confinement: ‘The End’, ‘The Expelled’, Molloy, Malone Dies5 Political Pentimenti: Waiting for Godot, Endgame6 Learning to Say ‘Not I’: The Unnamable7 Redoing Not I in ‘Non-A’8 ‘The Limits of Interpretation’: Imagination Dead Imagine, All Strange Away 9 The ‘Anethics’ of Staging Confinement: ‘Mongrel Mime’, CatastropheConclusion: ‘Mongrel’ SpaceWorks Cited

James Little is a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University, Prague and Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Little’s references to recent performances of Beckett’s plays in different parts of the world (be it Not I or Godot) testify to their immense potential to resonate with their audiences in various political and cultural contexts. His comprehensive and extremely well-researched investigation of Beckett's creation of confined spaces, “whether onstage or on the page” (207), by means of the genetic-critical methodology, is illuminating, persuasive and extremely well-written, and as such is a valuable scholarly resource both within and beyond Beckett studies.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on the TextIntroduction: Beckett’s Spatial Politics1 Images of Confinement: Proust, Dream of Fair to Middling Women2 The Ethics of Writing Confinement: ‘Dante and the Lobster’, ‘Fingal’, Murphy3 ‘Vaguening’ Confinement: Watt4 ‘Undoing’ Confinement: ‘The End’, ‘The Expelled’, Molloy, Malone Dies5 Political Pentimenti: Waiting for Godot, Endgame6 Learning to Say ‘Not I’: The Unnamable7 Redoing Not I in ‘Non-A’8 ‘The Limits of Interpretation’: Imagination Dead Imagine, All Strange Away 9 The ‘Anethics’ of Staging Confinement: ‘Mongrel Mime’, CatastropheConclusion: ‘Mongrel’ SpaceWorks Cited