Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
eBook - PDF

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

A Reference Guide

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

A Reference Guide

About this book

No modern play in the western dramatic tradition has provoked as much controversy or generated as much diversity of opinion as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Since its initial production in 1953, it has revolutionized the stage through its existentialism and apparent rejection of plot. This book is a valuable introduction to the play. It begins with a summary of the play and its origins and editions. It then explores the play's meaning and the historical and intellectual contexts informing Beckett's work. The book then examines Beckett's dramatic art and gives full coverage of the play's performance history. A bibliographical essay surveys the most important critical studies.

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Table of contents

  1. FRONT MATTER
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. Chapter 1: SUMMARY
  5. Chapter 2: TEXTS
  6. Chapter 3: MEANING
  7. Chapter 4: INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS
  8. Chapter 5: DRAMATIC ART
  9. Chapter 6: PERFORMANCE
  10. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
  11. INDEX
  12. ABOUT THE AUTHOR