Abbey Theatre, 7, 64, 66–67, 82

Abel, Lionel, 40, 42, 83, 117–118, 130

absurdist theatre, 20, 354–356

antirealism, 7, 110, 114, 120

Arendt, Hannah, 10–11, 187–188, 194–196, 200–204, 224, 280

Barthes, Roland, 125, 185, 191, 204, 351–352, 356, 366, 368

Baudrillard, Jean, 46–47, 52, 54, 59, 290

Bauman, Zygmunt, 292, 295, 298, 300, 303

Beaumont, Francis, 45, 49–50, 58–59

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 45, 49, 59

Beckett, Samuel, 9, 15, 19, 63, 133–156, 161, 173, 178, 184, 266, 351–370

Endgame , 135, 144, 150, 152, 353, 357, 359–360, 362–363, 365–367, 368–370

Footfalls , 148

Krapp’s Last Tape , 136, 144, 148, 152, 154–155, 356–357

Malone Dies , 173, 180, 382

Molloy , 134, 173, 180, 382

Not I , 136, 143, 146, 148

Ohio Impromptu , 149

Play , 143–145, 149

The Lost Ones , 147

The Unnamable , 173, 359, 368

Waiting for Godot , 9, 154, 266, 353, 357, 368–370

What Where , 149–150

Benjamin, Walter, 50, 59, 62, 258, 263, 265, 280

Bloom, Harold, 256, 280

Brecht, Bertolt, 6, 10, 14, 64, 70–71, 79–80, 98, 161, 178, 185–187, 205, 218–220, 224, 228, 243, 245, 258–259, 268–269, 274, 276, 372

Brenton, Howard, 15, 284

Brook, Peter, 24, 34, 42–43

Butler, Judith, 93, 106

capitalism, 29, 186, 199, 213, 272, 287, 296, 299, 313, 322

Celan, Paul, 187, 190

Churchill, Caryl, 10, 12, 14, 231–254, 261, 385

Cohn, Ruby, 1, 22, 144, 154

Crimp, Martin, 283

Derrida, Jacques, 57, 188, 204, 269, 279–280, 286, 293, 300, 303–304

Diamond, Elin, 337, 348

Edgar, David, 15, 284

epistemology, 3–4, 12–14, 19, 46–47, 78, 117, 159, 173–181, 286, 292, 355, 357, 360, 365, 367

Elam, Diane, 89, 106

Ellmann, Richard, 136–138, 152, 155

Esslin, Martin, 354–356, 366, 369

ethics, 13–16, 85, 105, 167, 197, 223, 264, 268, 282–305