Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

129 Pages·2004·0.708 MB·English

by  Graver, Lawrence, Beckett, Samuel

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LANDMARKS OF WORLD LITERATURE
Beckett
WaitingforGodot
LANDMARKS OF WORLD LITERATURE
SECOND EDITIONS
MurasakiShikibu:TheTaleofGenji–RichardBowring
Aeschylus:TheOresteia–SimonGoldhill
Virgil:TheAeneid–K.W.Gransden,neweditioneditedby
S.J.Harrison
Homer:TheOdyssey–JasperGriffin
Dante:TheDivineComedy–RobinKirkpatrick
Milton:ParadiseLost–DavidLoewenstein
Camus:TheStranger–PatrickMcCarthy
Joyce:Ulysses–VincentSherry
Homer:TheIliad–MichaelSilk
Chaucer:TheCanterburyTales–WinthropWetherbee
Shakespeare:Hamlet–PaulA.Cantor
Beckett:WaitingforGodot–LawrenceGraver
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
LAWRENCE GRAVER
ProfessorofEnglish,WilliamsCollege
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Contents
Preface pageix
Chronology x
1 EnattendantGodot/WaitingforGodot:genesis
andreception 1
1 Beckettatthebeginning 1
2 Paris1946–8 6
3 GodotinParis,LondonandNewYork 8
2 Approachingtheplay 19
4 Thedramaofunknowingness 19
5 Thecageddynamic 22
6 Ritualsandroutines 32
7 ‘Godet...Godot...Godin...anyhowyou
seewhoImean?’ 38
8 PozzoandLucky 44
9 Lucky’s‘think’ 45
10 EntertheBoy 50
11 ActI/ActII–‘nothinghappens,twice’ 54
12 Pozzoredux 62
13 Vladimir’ssoliloquy,theBoyagain,theclose
oftheplay 65
3 GodotinFrenchandinEnglish 70
vii
viii Contents
4 ThepresenceofGodot:theplayinthecontemporary
theatreandelsewhere 79
14 ThegrowingmythofGodot 79
15 Godotandthepopularimagination 85
16 Godotandthecontemporarytheatre 86
Guidetofurtherreading 103