Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Type
Classification
1
Creator
1
Subject
2
Content
1
Author
1
resource.hasPart
1
Mapped to
1
Label
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
dramas
Main title
Waiting for Godot
Oclc number
725014515
Responsibility statement
Samuel Beckett
Summary
This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide -- anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay". Throughout the play, the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical, biographical, and especially wartime references
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2