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PATRICK ÁRMSTRONG non-existence. The intention of this argument is to give rise to more extensive studies of Beckett’s Sinic world, which can only serve to further enrich our experience of his work. Moreover, Beckett’s affinity with Chinese and Japanese culture enables us to place him within a new global context; one that should inspire future Hisao Kanzes to “try again,” or indeed “fail again,” with their efforts to produce plays that embrace the stirring Eastern philosophical dimensions of Beckett’s work. BIBLIOGRAPHY Asmus, W. D.: Rehearsal notes for the German premiere of Beckett’s That Time and Footfalls at the Schiller-Theatre Werkstatt, Berlin (directed by Beckett), trans. Helen Watanabe, Journal of Beckett Studies 2 (1977), 83-95. BECKETT, Samuel: The Complete Dramatic Works, London, Faber and Faber, 1986. BECKETT, Samuel: Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment, ed. Ruby Cohn, London, John Calder, 1983. BECKETT, Samuel: Dream Notebook, ed. John Pilling, Reading, Beckett International Foundation, 1999. BECKETT, Samuel: Dream of Fair to Middling Women, ed. Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier, Dublin, The Black Cat, 1992. BECKETT, Samuel: Echo’s Bones, ed. Mark Nixon, London, Faber and Faber, 2014. BECKETT, Samuel: The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vols. 1-3, eds. George Craig et al., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 2009-2014. BECKETT, Samuel: More Pricks Than Kicks, ed. Cassandra Nelson, London, Faber and Faber, 2010. BECKETT, Samuel: Murphy, London, John Calder, 1963. BECKETT, Samuel: That Time, MS 1477/1-10, Beckett Manuscript Collection at the University of Reading, 1974. BECKETT, Samuel: The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV, The Shorter Plays, ed. S.E. Gontarski, New York, Grove, 1999. BECKETT, Samuel: Worstward Ho, London, John Calder, 1983. BOLIN, John: Beckett and the Modern Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University, 2013. CUSHMAN, Robert: In a Hellish Half Light, Observer, 23 May 1976. DAUER, Dorothea: Schopenhauer as Transmitter of Buddhist Ideas, Berne, Lang, 1969. Davies, Paul: Womb of the Great Mother Emptiness: Beckett, the Buddha and the Goddess, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 9 (2000), 119-132.