1. William Shakespeare, King Lear (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983 [1975]), 205.
2. Maurice Maeterlinck, Three Pre-Surrealist Plays, trans. Maya Slater (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
3. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (London: Faber, 1965 ), 63.
4. José Saramago, Blindness, trans. Giovanni Pontiero ( London: Vintage, 2005 ).
5. For further analysis of this painting and the politics of vision, see David Forgacs, “Blindness and the Politics of the Gaze,” in Indeterminate Bodies, ed. Naomi Segal, Roger Cook, and Lib Taylor (UK: Palgrave, 2003 ).