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Abbott, H. Porter 100, 109, 118 disdain for allusion 145, 147 Adams, Gerry 92–93 embodied language in 50–52 Adigun, Bisi 205 as ghost in Banville 8 Adorno, Theodor H. 5, 6, 26, 101, 119 image on the Nobel stamp 203–04 coming to terms with the past, 93, 97 laughter in 27–28 reading of Endgame 41, 110, 111, 113–14 “mirlitonnades,” 140–42, 144 Albright, Daniel 24, 26 and King Lear 143 Alciati, Andrea 160 as “mystic writing pad” 7 Allusions, theories of 146–48 the pensum 20–21, 145 Altick, Richard D. 168 photographs of 203 Alvarez, A. 19 textual repetition in 23 Arden, John 62 and tourism 7 Arikha, Avigdor 203 All Strange Away 35–36 Atik, Anne 38, 39, 125, 126, 129, 149, 203 “Cascando” 53 Authorial adjectives 19–20, 24, 206 Catastrophe 40, 119 and the Holocaust 119 Bachelard, Gaston 28 and Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse 184 Badiou, Alain 5, 6, 9, 38, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 92, 101, Come and Go 175 110, 176 Company 34, 36–38, 39, 47, 54 on aﬃrmation in Beckett, 41, 119, 130, 136 Dream of Fair to Middling Women 51, 52, 126 on the event, 41–42, 48, 136–37, 176–77 “Echo’s Bones” 49 on the turn in Beckett’s writing in the 1960s 25 Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates 49 on Worstward Ho as “recapitulatory text” 25, 37, 52 Endgame 2, 4, 5, 6, 15, 26, 28, 30, 45, 48, 79, 81, Bahktin, Mikhail 20 87, 105, 177 Bair, Deirdre 49, 106, 199 and Muldoon’s “Incantata” 154 Banville, John 4, 5, 7, 22, 24, 49, 169, 198–99 and Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse 187 Athena 33 and The Tempest 30 Eclipse 8 language in 33, 113, 172–74 Ghosts 168, 177 “Eneug II” 53 Nightspawn 170, 182 “Expelled, The” 7 Shroud 16 First Love 42, 43 Untouchable, The 45 Fizzles 35 Barnes, Clive 70 Footfalls 34, 35, 38 Barthes, Roland 30, 79, 101 Happy Days 47, 79, 81, 87 Bateman, Colin 74 Memory and comic buoyancy in 28–30, 31 Baudrillard, Jean 43, 74 things in 43, 44 Beardsley, Monroe C. 127 “Home Olga” 53 Beckett Centenary Festival 197, 198 How It Is 9, 11, 25 Beckett, Samuel Ill Seen Ill Said 2, 3, 9, 22–23, 36, 39, 43, 46, and memory 33 48–49, 52–53, 81, 116, 125, 135, 140, 145 awarded the Nobel prize 199 and King Lear 126, 147 221

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Beckett, Samuel (cont.) Breton, André 24 Imagination Dead Imagine 24, 36 Breuer, Lee 175 Krapp’s Last Tape 1, 7, 42 Brook, Peter 125, 192 and Muldoon’s “Incantata” 152 Brown, Bill 44, 45–46, 83 and Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse Burke, Patrick 82 186–87, 188 Bush, George Herbert Walker 183 Malone Dies 25, 37, 39, 98, 100, 110, 170, 179 Bush, George W. 189, 206 Mercier and Camier 44, 118 Molloy 20, 32, 43, 50, 75, 98, 179, 181 Carlson, Marvin 73 More Pricks Than Kicks 37, 49 Carr, Marina 8, 10, 19, 25, 168, 170–83 “Dante and the Lobster” 158 development as a playwright 168–69 “Yellow” 172 influence of Eugene O’Neill 170–71 Murphy 110, 192 influence of Tennessee Williams 170–71 Not I 9, 34–35, 37 Ariel 131, 171, 180–82 Piece of Monologue, A 176, 177 By the Bog of Cats … 8, 167, 178, 180, 181 Play 175 Low in the Dark 8, 169, 171, 172–78 Proust 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 31, 33, 39, 205 Mai, The 76, 131, 170, 171, 180 Rockaby 87 Meat and Salt 131 Rough for the Theatre I 45 On Raftery’s Hill 131, 178, 179–80 “Sanies I” 51 Portia Coughlan 167, 170, 180 “Sanies II” 51 Ullaloo 171 Stirrings Still 9 Woman and Scarecrow 9, 44, 169, 170, 171, 178, 182 Texts for Nothing 118 and Beckett 171–72 That Time 34, 38 Carson, Ciaran 78, 85–86, 99, 131 Unnamable, The 21, 40, 43, 51, 99, 175, 179 Casanova, Pascale 15, 18, 47, 134–35, 200 Waiting for Godot 3, 5, 8, 30, 32, 33, 47, 79, 87, Cavell, Stanley 26, 27, 33, 172, 180 107, 118, 158, 172, 176, 181 “Celtic Tiger, The” 193–94 and Mahon’s “An Image from Beckett” 137 Chandler, James 197–98 and Muldoon’s “Incantata” 158 Charnes, Linda 86, 206 comic devices in 174–75 Chekhov, Anton 61 New Orleans production after Hurricane Three Sisters 61 Katrina 3–4, 206 Uncle Vanya 61 New York production with Steve Martin Clancy, Tom 65 and Robin Williams 193 Cleary, Joe 14, 15–16 Watt 27, 43, 47, 54, 179, 181 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 36 Whoroscope 9 Imagination v. Fancy in 36 Worstward Ho 9, 15, 36, 37, 48, 53, 111, 118, 130, Conlon, Gerry 66 135, 136, 140, 145, 156, 176 Connor, Steven 14, 17, 19, 23, 24, 30, 46, 50, 136 and King Lear 126 Cooper, Gary 185, 187 Beckett, William 196 Cotter, Holland 4 Benet, Juan 134 Cronin, Anthony, 7, 8, 37, 118 Bensaïd Daniel 177 Berkeley, George 45 Davis, Lydia 206 Bew, Paul 95 Deane, Seamus 72 Bloom, Harold 10 Debord, Guy 74 on influence 13–10 De Certeau, Michel 100 poetic misprision 17 Deleuze, Gilles 6 Boland, Eavan 72, 132 “The Exhausted” 53–54 Bond, Edward 68 Dentith, Simon 20 Boucicault, Dion 65 Derrida, Jacques 6, 180 Bourke, Bernadette 178 “The Law of Genre” 64–65 Boyd, John 62 Specters of Marx 166, 167–68 Brecht, Bertolt 72, 79 Devlin, Anne 67 Alienation effect 72 Ourselves Alone 69 Brennan, Rory 145 Dickinson, Emily 18, 148, 167

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Dolar, Mladen 134 Grene, Nicholas 204 Donleavy, J. P. 44 Grimes, Conor, and Alan McKee 67 Donne, John 1 Guattari, Félix 6 Douglas, Kirk 185, 187 Doyle, Roddy 205 Haughton, Hugh 141 Dryden, John 22 Havel, Václav 119 Heaney, Seamus 148, 198 Eagleton, Terry 16, 130, 135, 136, 200 Defense of Friel’s Volunteers 71, 72, 75 Emblems and Powers’ Emblements 160 North 127 Esslin, Martin 14, 16, 17 “Punishment” 128 Everly Brothers, The 149 review of Muldoon’s The Annals of Chile 146 Higgins, Jack 65 Fallon, Brian 202 Hill, Leslie 110 Faulkner, Brian 95 Horne, Ned 4 Faulkner, William 134 Hughes, Robert 133 Fleming, Ian 167 Hynes, Garry 204 Fo, Dario 172 Ford, Harrison 65 Ibsen, Henrik 62 Foster, R. F. 95 Fouere, Olwen 184 Jackson, Michael 133 Frazier, Adrian 204 Jaﬀe, Aaron 19, 23 Freund, Gisèle 203 Jameson, Fredric 111 Friel, Brian 8, 11, 18, 26, 120, 125 Johnson, Mark 50 Aristocrats, The 61 Johnston, Jennifer 65, 99 Dancing at Lughnasa 76 Railway Station Man, The 109, 114 Faith Healer 76, 170 Jones, Marie 67 Freedom of the City, The 61, 62–63, 70–71, 72, Night in November, A 69 73, 79–80, 86, 99, 170 Joyce, James 10, 11, 79, 102, 138, 192 Home Front, The 61 Dubliners 7, 10 Lovers 87 “Boarding House, The” 103 Mundy Scheme, The 194 “Clay” 104 Performances 75–76 “Dead, The” 79–80, 103, 154 “Self-Portrait” 71 “Painful Case, A” 103 “Theatre of Hope and Despair, The” 62 “Sisters, The” 7, 104 This Hard House 131 Finnegans Wake 107, 112, 153 Volunteers 61, 62, 63, 70, 71, 76–79, 80–81, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, A 10, 83–85, 86, 99, 170 102, 104 Yalta Game, The 61 Ulysses 10, 18, 44, 192 Bloomsday (theatrical adaptation of Ulysses) 201 Galvin, Patrick 67 Joyce, May 202 Gardner, Lyn 9, 171 Garner, Stanton B., Jr. 35 Kane, Sarah 68 Gelber, Jack 62 Kavanagh, Patrick 11, 18 Genet, Jean 62 Kay, Jackie 102 Giacometti, Alberto 3 Keane, John B. 204 Gibbon, Peter 95 Kearney, Richard 24, 25, 61 Gibson, Andrew 110, 114, 119, 136 Keats, John 84 Gill, Peter 76 Keller, John Robert 42, 45 Glassie, Henry 40, 66 Kendall, Tim 153 Glendinning, Robin 67 Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer 63, 65, 135 Donny Boy 68–69 Kerkorian, Kirk 197 Summerhouse 69 Keyser, Arthur 142 Goldsmith, Oliver 18 Kiberd, Declan 6, 7, 10, 18, 25, 49, 111, 154 Gordon, Lois 106 Malone Dies as paradigmatic novel 26, 39, 75 Gregory, Lady Augusta 18 Kiely, Benedict 84, 114

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Kilroy, Thomas 1, 87 Time to Dance and Other Stories, A 96, 109 Shape of Metal, The 3 Walking the Dog and Other Stories 8, 96, 100, Kincaid, Andrew 193 101, 106, 107–10, 120 on tourism and the Irish landscape 195–96 “At the Beach” 8, 107 Kingsley, Charles 155 “Visit to Norway, A” 109 Kingston, Jeremy 77 MacNeice, Louis 11 Knowlson, James 41, 119, 126, 144 McCaﬀerty, Owen 67 Kott, Jan 4, 5, 6, 9, 16–17, 100 Mojo Mickeybo 68 on King Lear and Endgame 100 McDonagh, Martin 8, 67, 204 Kristeva, Julia 27, 101, 116, 118, 120 Cripple of Inishmaan, The 9 on depression 117 Lieutenant of Inishmore, The 67–68, 71 Kyd, Thomas 64 Pillowman, The 166–67, 179 “ghosted” by Franz Kafka 167 Lakoﬀ, George 50 Skull in Connemara, A 8 La Mama E. T. C. 175 McMullan, Anna 178 Lancaster, Burt 185 McNamee, Eoin Latour, Bruno 86 Resurrection Man 65, 66, 127, 128, 129 Lemass, Seán 196, 202 McQuaid, Archbishop John Charles 201 Levene, Nancy 48 Machacek, Gregory 145 Levinas, Emmanuel 180 Madonna 175 Lewis, Wyndham 26 Magee, Patrick 192 Lloyd, David 24, 49, 64 Mahon, Derek 7, 8, 11, 19, 129, 135–44, 145, Longley, Michael 131 168, 194 Luckhurst, Mary 68 “Beyond Howth Head” 138–40 Ludlam, Charles 175 Hudson Letter, The 140 Lynch, Brian 73 “Burbles” 140–44 Lynch, Martin 67 embodied language in 142 History of the Troubles ( accordin’ to my Da), The 69 “The Yaddo Letter” 140 Lyons, Charles 17 Lives 137 Lyotard, Jean-François 180 “An Image from Beckett” 137–38 “North Wind: Portrush” and King Lear 131–32 MacGowran, Jack 192, 204 Poems, 1962–1978 135 MacGreevy, Thomas 24, 141 Yellow Book, The 134, 138, 139, 142, 192, 195 MacLaverty, Bernard 7, 11, 18, 26, 125 “American Deserta” 195 embodied language in 107 “Night Thoughts” 195 intertextuality in, 109 “‘shiver your tenement’” 195 Anatomy School, The 104–05 Manet, Edouard 152 Cal 65, 79, 92, 96, 97–98, 99, 100, 109, 179 Marlowe, Sam 171 Grace Notes 100, 101, 108, 110–19, 120 Martin, Steve 193 and intertextuality 101–02 Mason, Patrick 8 The Great Profundo and Other Stories Mercier, Vivian 6, 10, 11 “Death of a Parish Priest” 104 Merriman, Brian 139 “Drapery Man, The” and Beckett, 105–07 Miller, Tyrus 26, 27, 30, 111, 118, 120, 172 Lamb 94, 98, 99, 109 Minahan, John 203 Matters of Life & Death and Other Stories 96 Moore, Marianne 198, 203 “Matters of Life and Death” 2, 104 Morash, Christopher 62, 67, 166 “On the Roundabout” 96–97 Morrison, Conall 67 “Trusted Neighbor, A” 97 Hard to Believe 68 “Up the Coast” 104 Morrison, Toni 102 “Wedding Ring, The” and Joycean echoes Muldoon, Paul 2, 10, 19, 26, 102 103–04 Annals of Chile, The 2, 168 “Winter Storm” 104 reviews of, 145–46 Secrets and Other Stories 94 “Incantata” 130, 149, 150–, 156–59 “Happy Birthday, A” 94–96 allusions in 149–50 “Hugo” and Joycean echoes 102–03 “Yarrow” 2–3, 130, 202

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and King Lear 132–34, 145 Pratt, William 146 and voice 148, 152–53 Presentism, 205–06 End of the Poem, The 125, 135, 148 and “ghosting” 167 Rabaté, Jean-Michel 41, 54 “Getting Round: Notes Toward an Ars Poetica” Reagan, Ronald 114 126–27, 131 Redmond, John 148–49 Horse Latitudes 130, 146 Rees, Catherine 68 “Sillyhow Stride” 130 Regan, Brigid 202 allusions in, 149 Reid, Christina 67 Moy Sand and Gravel 154 Reid, Graham 67 “As” 154–56 Ricoeur, Paul 21, 31, 93 “At the Sign of the Black Horse, September Robinson, Marc 186 1999” 160–61 Roche, Anthony 1, 2, 10, 167, 170 “Loaf, The” 161 Roth, Henry 132 Prince of the Quotidian, The 154 Quoof 127 Said, Edward 102 “Mary Farl Powers: Pink Spotted Torso” 151 Sands, Bobby 39–40 “The More a Man Has the More a Man Scaife, Sarahjane 172, 175 Wants” 128 Schmidt, Arno 134 Six Honest Serving Men 10 Scholes, Robert 18, 101, 102 To Ireland, I 7, 18, 149, 152 Schopenhauer, Arthur 41 Munch, Edvard 109 Scoﬁeld, Paul 125 Murphy, Paula 193 Scorsese, Martin 67 Murphy, Tom 69 Serres, Michel 52, 102, 150, 167 Bailegangaire 70, 144 Shadwell, Thomas 22 Murray, Christopher 9, 201 Shakespeare, William 10, 11, 79, 102 Antony and Cleopatra 6 Norfolk, Lawrence 146 Coriolanus 45 Cymbeline 31 O’Brien, Edna 65, 99 Hamlet 3, 10, 29, 64 O’Brien, Flann 11, 18, 106 allusions to in Carson’s Belfast Confetti O’Brien, Kate 18 85–86 O’Casey, Sean 69, 96 allusions to in Friel’s Volunteers 81–82 Drums of Father Ned, The 201 and Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow 182–83 End of the Beginning, The 76, 80, King Lear 4, 5, 6, 10, 52, 125, 131 176, 201 allusions to in The Freedom of the City 82–83 Juno and the Paycock 68, 201 and Beckett 125–26 The Plough and the Stars 71 and Beckett’s mirlitonnades, 126 O’Connor, Laura 203 Macbeth 7, 104–05 O’Donoghue, John 197 Romeo and Juliet 65 O’Neill, Ella 202 Sir Thomas More 78 O’Neill, Eugene 62, 131, 202 Tempest, The 6, 44 Osborne, John 62 Titus Andronicus 64 O’Toole, Fintan 61, 72, 183, 184, 189 Shaw, Bernard 198 Outka, Elizabeth 202 John Bull’s Other Island 147, 196, 200 Shepard, Sam 5, 10 Paisley, Ian 84, 92–93 reaction to Waiting for Godot 5 Papp, Joseph 71 Buried Child 184 Patterson, Henry 95 Curse of the Starving Class 184 Peacham, Henry 160 Fool for Love 169, 184, 185 Pilkington, Lionel 71, 72 Kicking a Dead Horse 10, 186–89, 206 Pine, Richard 79 Abbey Theatre production 169, 183–84 Pinter, Harold 1, 5, 62, 184 Motel Chronicles 184–85 Pope, Alexander 22 Paris, Texas 184 Powers, Mary Farl 132, 150 passim, 169 Shaved Splits 175

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Shepard, Sam (cont.) Devil’s Own, The 65 True West 169, 184, 185–86 In the Name of the Father 65 Unseen Hand, The 175 Some Mother’s Son 66 Sheridan, Peter 8 and the Holocaust in MacLaverty 93, Simon, Neil 62 94–96, 115 Simpson, Alan 202 as a phrase 63–64 Sir Thomas More 78 as “ungetroundable” for Northern poets 127–29 Skelton, Ike 183 in rural communities 40–41 Smith, Gus 71 Smith, Stan 135, 137 van Itallie, Jean-Claude 175 Smith, Stevie 148, 167 Vendler, Helen 146, 147 Smyth, Gerry 101 Stein, Leo 45 Wall, Eamonn 132 Sterne, Laurence 149 Watts, Richard 71 Stewart, Bruce 135, 137 Webster, John 64 Stoppard, Tom Welles, Orson 23 Reaction to Waiting for Godot 5 White, Hayden 66 Swift, Carolyn 201 Whitney, Geoffrey 25 Swift, Jonathan 18 A Choice of Emblemes 160 Synge, John Millington 18, 201 Widgery, Lord Chief Justice 148 Deirdre of the Sorrows 205 Widgery Tribunal, Report of 70, 72, 73 Druid production of Playboy of the Western Wilde, Oscar 193 World 204–05 Wilde, Sir William 193 Adigun-Doyle adaptation of 205 Williams, Robin 193 Williams, Tennessee 131 Taggart, Ashley 67 The Rose Tattoo at the Pike Theatre 202 Tandy, Jessica 9 Wills, Clair 144 Tarantino, Quentin 67 Wilson, Lanford 175 Tate, Nahum 205 Wilson, Robert McLiam Taylor, Caroline Hay 143 Eureka Street 74, 129 Taylor, Paul 77 Ripley Bogle 63, 64, 71–72, 127, 128–29 Terry, Megan 175 Wimsatt, W.K. 127 Thing, The 44 Wolfe, Cary 180, 181 “Thing Theory” Woods, Vincent 67 things in Beckett 42–44 At the Black Pig’s Dyke 69 things v. commodities 43–46 Cry from Heaven, A 205 things in Shepard 186, 188 World literature study, 14–15 Tillinghast, Richard 146 Wordsworth, William 148, 167 Toíbín, Colm 134, 192–93, 202 The Master 125 Yates, Frances Tóstal controversy of 1958 201 on artificial memory 31 Tourneur, Cyril 64 Yeats, Jack B. 24, 41 Trevor, William 143 Yeats, William Butler 198, 200 “Troubles,” The “All Souls’ Night” 148 and film 65–66 Young, James 114, 115, 119 Blown Away 65 Boxer, The 66 Zevon, Warren 149, 154