‘Make sense who may’ is the terse challenge thrown down by one of Beckett’s characters at the end of his play What Where (1983). This volume of essays is a response to that challenge, and especially to the difficulties raised by Beckett’s drama of the last twenty years, drama which disturbs our notion of what to expect from the theatrical experience and which defies conventional classification. The list of contributors, whose backgrounds are in the theatre and the universities, is international Paul Lawley and Rosemary Pountney (Britain), Hersh Zeifman (Canada), Annamaria Sportelli (Italy),  Andrew Kennedy (Norway), Antoni Libera (Poland), Phyllis Carey, Mary Doll, Jane Hale, Karen Laughlin, Monique Nagem, Kathleen O’Gorman, Lois Oppenheim, Robert Sandarg and Thomas Simone (USA). These writers examine various textual, linguistic, semiotic, cultural and political aspects of Beckett’s work, but share a common interest and fascination in Beckett, the man and his writing. ‘Make Sense Who May’ will stimulate the reader to go back to the plays themselves.