Съдържание:
  • Acknowledgements vii; Introduction 1; Chapter One Francis Bacon, Royal Arch Rites and the 'Passing of the Veils' 13; Chapter Two Perambulations with the Men of No Popery: Orange Order Themes and the Irish Warrior Tradition in the Art of Francis Bacon 37; Chapter Three Samuel Beckett's Plays: Waiting for Godot: A Parody of Royal Arch Rites? 63; Chapter Four Samuel Beckett's Plays: Ritual Movements, Subjective States, Torture and Trauma 85; Chapter Five Initiatory Rites in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable and Other Prose 117.
  • Chapter Six Trauma, Druidism and the Gnostic Tradition in the Work of Bacon and Beckett 139Appendix Francis Bacon websites 151; Notes 153; Select Bibliography 189; Index 203.