1. Introduction; 2. Modernism, Painting, Tragedy; 3. 'Good Evening'; 4. The Fact of Separateness: Beckett and Scepticism; 5. To-be-Seenness: Fried and Film; 6. Resorting to Rectangles; 7. 'He Will Now Think He Hears Her'; 8. Objects of a Special Gaze; 9. The Face of the Father; 10. The Ghost; 11. Conclusion.