Beckett’s Co-authors

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

Using the same elegant and warm tone, not abandoning the curiosity that charges everything he pens with passion and excitement, Stanley Gontarski is now offering a new book on Godot. Another angle! Another perspective! And yet, the same fascinating attributes of great academic and cultural writing: expertise, rigour and analytic accuracy.

• List of FiguresSeries Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue Note on the Text1. Overview: A Genealogy of Intervention2. The Broadway Adepts, or Wilderizing Beckett3. Godot’s Bad Blood: The Tumult in Miami4. Cutting up Godot5. Mimeography: Godot and the Uncertainties of Textual Transmission6. ‘Cerebral physiology’: Degeneration and the Irrelevance of Godot7. The Case for Multiple AuthorshipAppendix A. Waiting for Godot. Theatre Arts. XL.8 (August 1956): 36-61 (collation)Appendix B. Peter Snow’s Autograph Revisions Collated with the Grove Press editionAppendix C. Donald Albery’s memo to the Lord Chamberlain, 26 April 1954Appendix D. Known Mimeographed Versions of Waiting for GodotRelevant ArchivesReferencesNotesIndex