In the half century since its première in French, millions of words have been written about Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It is probably the most famous twentieth-century play. Beckett himself rejected the interpretation, which is ...
Pros: Raises some great questions, leaves the audience to answer the questions. Cons: Some people find that reading the play is impossible. It just doesn't move quickly enough for them.
Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest plays of all time. Many people find reading it drab and tiresome; but if you consider what it's saying, and what it's asking (also consider that it is really the first, and most famous, work classified as...
Pros: Great play, open ground for anyone's application of theory Cons: Plot points may be missed by those unfamiliar with rudimentary existentialism (conservatives watch out)
Much debate has spawned regarding who or what is "Godot" in Beckett's most famous work, which depicts two men (tinkers) waiting for the unseen personage to arrive while debating suicide and meeting a small number of characters, representing...
Pros: Thought provoking Cons: play doesn't change and drags on
I read this wonderful play for my AP Literature and Composition class. I read it for no other reason besides its numerical qualifications but after finishing the play, that reason has changed dramatically.
Pros: the more you eat, the worse it tastes Cons: get used to the muck as you go along
Waiting for Godot. Maybe tonight or tomorrow evening.
Two vagabonds are soliciting a barren road, waiting for the delayed, or the inevitable, or the non existent. They are waiting for a mysterious being by the name of Mr. Godot.
Pros: Multi-layered Stream of Ideas and Images Cons: It Might Inspire some Existentialist Leanings (Wait, that's not Really a Bad Thing!)
If Sartre's No Exit is existentialism's Great Abyss then Godot is its backhanded offer of Redemption, reminding us that simply being, simply living, may be enough. There may be nothing else out there, nothing beyond our frame of existence,...
I'll go along with Edrinalinc4's review for the most part. There's been a lot of pretentious stuff written about Beckett in the past, about his "existential meaninglessness", blah, blah, blah. I've often wondered why, if life, according to...
Pros: A wonderful book! Cons: Can leave the layreader confused...
Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is a masterpiece of existentialism. It gives the audience all the questions, points in the direction of the answers, and lets the reader decide for himself what truth is.
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffus...More at Buy.com
Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the 20th century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died i...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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