Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
$24.61
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2011
Summary
Subtitled ‘A tragicomedy in two Acts’, and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which ‘nothing happens, twice’, En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571244591 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571244599 |
| Author: | Samuel Beckett |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Faber Drama |
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War II. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn’t published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
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