Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Waiting for Godot
(1956)
Samuel
Beckett
(April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989)
Notes
Waiting
for Godot was first written in French as En
attendant Godot in 1948. It premiered in 1953 at the Théâtre de
Babylone in Paris.
Estragon:
French for the aromatic herb tarragon (Artemisia
dracunculus), also called dragon's wort, dragon herb, dragon
sagewort, green sage, and silky wormwood
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Characters
Estragon, Gogo, Adam –
Vladimir, Didi
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Pozzo –
Places
a country road –
tree –
Time
evening –
Sample Student Responses to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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Reference
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Print.
Further
Reading
Ackerly, C. J., and S. E. Gontarski. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought. New York: Grove, 2004. Print.
Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Rev. ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Print.
Beckett, Samuel. Collected Shorter Plays. New York: Grove, 1984. Print.
Gontarski, S. E., ed. A Companion to Samuel Beckett.
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print.
Knowlson, James R. Damed to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Print.
McMillan, Dougald, and James Knowlson, eds. The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove, 1993. Print.
Pilling, John. The
Cambridge Companion to Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1994. Print.
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