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In addition to recapitulating what the monograph has established so far, this chapter attempts to answer the question, ‘Do all of Beckett’s audience members intuit loss as they experience Beckett’s work?’

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, trans. Dana Polan (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 96 n. 16.

  2. 2.

    Qtd in Jonathan Bignell, Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009), 186.

  3. 3.

    Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works. (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 133.

  4. 4.

    Happy Days, directed by James Bundy, performed by Dianne Weist and Jarlath Conroy (20 May 2017; Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New York).

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

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Chiang, M. (2018). Conclusion. In: Beckett's Intuitive Spectator. New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91518-0_6

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