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Acknowledgments Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Getting known': Samuel Beckett's International Reception 1. The Business of Being Beckett: Beckett's Reception in the USA, S.E. Gontarski (Florida State University, USA) 2. Beckett Among the Philosophes: The Critical Reception of Samuel Beckett in France, Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) 3. Beckett's Reception in Great Britain, Mary Bryden (University of Northampton, UK) 4. Samuel Beckett's Reception in Ireland, Seán Kennedy (St. Mary's University, Canada) 5. The Reception of Beckett's Theatre and Television Pieces in West and East Germany, Gaby Hartel, Klaus Völker and Thomas Irmer (Frie University Berlin, Germany) 6. Shades of Negativity and Self-Reflexivity: The Reception of Beckett in German Literary Studies, Eckart Voigts-Virchow (University of Siegen, Germany) 7. Samuel Beckett's Reception in Australia and New Zealand, Russell Smith and Chris Ackerley (Australian National University, Australia and University of Otago, New Zealand) 8. The Reception of Samuel Beckett in China, Lie Jianxi and Mike Ingham (Macao Polytechnic Institute and Lignan University, Hong Kong) 9. The Japanese Reception of Samuel Beckett, Yoshiki Tajiri and Mariko Hori Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan) 10. Samuel Beckett and Poland, Marek Kedzierski (Freiburg, Germany) 11. Samuel Beckett in the Low Countries, Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 12. Thinking of ‘a rhyme for "Euganean": Beckett in Italy, Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester, UK) 13. Beckett's Nordic Reception, Ulrika Maude (University of Durham, UK) 14. Samuel Beckett behind the Iron Curtain: The Reception in Eastern Europe, Octavian Saiu (University of Otago, New Zealand) 15. A Long Time Coming: The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett in Spain and Portugal, José Francisco Fernández (University of Almería, Spain) Index