The relationship between Gilles Deleuze and Samuel Beckett has excited many scholars and continues to be of major interest today. This article explores the Deleuzian concept of multiplicity by considering quantitative and qualitative multiplicities in Beckett’s work. In differentiating between these two types, Deleuze and Félix Guattari indicate that extensive or quantitative multiplicities are essentially numerical and can be counted and represented in space. This form of multiplicity is seen in Beckett’s use of various lists of items such as Molloy counting his sucking stones or Watt considering how to dispose of Mr Knott’s food. Qualitative multiplicities, by contrast, cannot be counted because they differ in kind from one another. They are represented in duration and are here observed in the minorization of language in How It Is, among other examples. S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus of Drama at Trinity College in Dublin. His most recent publications include Performing Statelessness in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and (with co-editor Radek Przedpełski) Deleuze, Guattari, and the Art of Multiplicity (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He is currently co-editing the Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration.

Gilles Deleuze 和 Samuel Beckett 之间的关系让许多学者兴奋不已，并且至今仍引起人们的极大兴趣。本文通过考虑贝克特工作中的定量和定性多重性来探索德勒兹的多重性概念。在区分这两种类型时，德勒兹和费利克斯·加塔里指出，广泛的或数量的多重性本质上是数字的，可以在空间中计算和表示。这种形式的多样性体现在贝克特对各种项目清单的使用中，例如莫洛伊数他吸吮的石头或瓦特考虑如何处理诺特先生的食物。相比之下，定性的多重性不能被计算，因为它们在种类上彼此不同。它们以持续时间来表现，并在此处以语言的小化形式观察到它是如何的，以及其他示例。SE Wilmer 是都柏林三一学院戏剧系名誉教授。他最近的出版物包括在欧洲表演无国籍状态（Palgrave Macmillan，2018 年）和（与共同编辑 Radek Przedpełski）德勒兹、瓜塔里和多样性的艺术（爱丁堡大学出版社，2020 年）。他目前正在共同编辑《帕尔格雷夫戏剧与移民手册》。