Waiting for Godot Play
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A Waiting for Godot Play is an Absurdist Play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot.
- Context:
- It can range from being a French Waiting for Godot Play to being an English Waiting for Godot Play.
- See: Absurdist Fiction, Estragon, Franz Kafka.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot Retrieved:2014-12-22.
- Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's 1953 premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century". [1] Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". [2] The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. [3] The première was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo.
- ↑ Berlin, N., "Traffic of our stage: Why Waiting for Godot?" in The Massachusetts Review, Autumn 1999
- ↑ Ackerley, C. J. and Gontarski, S. E., (Eds.) The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), p. 620.
- ↑ Ackerley and Gontarski 2006, p. 172.
2010
- (Haidt, 2010) ⇒ Jonathan Haidt. (2010). “Jonathan Haidt's Response to (Wolf, 2010).” In: (Wolf, 2010), Princeton University Press. ISBN:9781400834594
- QUOTE: A age fifteen I began calling myself an atheist. It was bad timing because the next year, in English class, I read Waiting for Godot and plunged into a philosophical depression. This was not a clinical depression with thoughts of personal worthlessness and a yearning for death. It was, rather, the kind of funk that Woody Allen's characters so often exhibited in his early movies.