Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Production
2 Broadcasting contexts
3 Institutions and authorship
4 Intertexts
5 Evaluations
6 Afterword
Bibliography
Index

This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading