Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Beckett: Waiting for Godot
2nd Edition
Lawrence Graver
June 2004
Available
Paperback
9780521549387
Waiting for Godot has become one of the most frequently discussed and influential plays in the history of the theater. This volume presents a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. He also reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation.
- New edition of a widely used and helpful guide to one of the greatest works of world literature - including a fully updated guide to further reading
- This introduction examines the significant after-life of waiting for Godot
- Written by an expert in the field who has taught this text for many years
Product details
June 2004Paperback
9780521549387
128 pages
199 × 129 × 11 mm
0.138kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- Part I. En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot: Genesis and Reception:
- 1. Beckett at the beginning
- 2. Paris 1946–8
- 3. Godot in Paris, London and New York
- Part II. Approaching the Play:
- 4. The drama of unknowingness
- 5. The caged dynamic
- 6. Rituals and routines
- 7. 'Godet … Godot … Godin … anyhow you see who I mean?'
- 8. Pozzo and Lucky
- 9. Lucky's 'think'
- 10. Enter the Boy
- 11. Act I/Act II - 'nothing happens, twice'
- 12. Pozzo redux
- 13. Vladimir's soliloquy, the boy again, the close of the play
- Part III. Godot in French and in English
- Part IV. The Presence of Godot … the Play in the Contemporary Theatre and Elsewhere:
- 14. The growing myth of Godot
- 15. Godot and the popular imagination
- 16. Godot and the contemporary theatre
- Guide to further reading.
