Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh)[1] is a play by Samuel Beckett.
The play has two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo). They have conversations and talk about many things while waiting for Godot, who never arrives.[2]
Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot. The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.
In 1998/99, it was voted the "most significant English-language play of the 20th century".[3][4][5]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Piepenburg, Erik (30 April 2009). "Anthony Page of Waiting for Godot Teaches Us How to Pronounce Its Title". The New York Times.
- ↑ Itzkoff, Dave (12 November 2013). "The Only Certainty Is That He Won't Show Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ↑ Berlin 1999.
- ↑ "Waiting for Godot voted best modern play in English" by David Lister, The Independent, 18 October 1998
- ↑ Aleks Sierz (2000). Clive Barker; Simon Trussler (eds.). "NT 2000: the Need to Make Meaning". New Theatre Quarterly. Cambridge University Press. 16 (2): 192–193. doi:10.1017/S0266464X00013713. ISBN 9780521789028. S2CID 191153800.
