Before beginning work on The Dressmaker, BB
had begun on a novel set in the USA entitled He's the Captan of the Team. This seems to have no connection with The Dressmaker...
Textual Production
Samuel Beckett
London's Royal Court
had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw
.
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.