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From: Perspective[(essay date October 1957) In the following essay, translated from the French version originally published in the October 1957 issue of Etudes Anglaises, Mayoux highlights Beckett's "laying open" the essence of human...
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From: Beckett at 80 / Beckett in Context[The essay excerpted below was originally presented as part of a lecture series at the University of Michigan during the academic year 1984-1985 to celebrate Beckett's eightieth birthday.] When I read Waiting for Godot...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Brater studies the uniqueness of many of the opening lines from Beckett's plays, explores their portent, and probes the non-linear aspects of the plays.] I Although Beckett...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Over four years elapsed between the premiere of Waiting for Godot and that of Beckett's next play, Endgame, in April 1957. The plays share some similar features particularly in the ratio of three clown-like characters to...
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From: Yale French Studies[(essay date winter 1954-55) In the following essay, Kern studies the characters in Waiting for Godot and contends that they are analogies for the entire human race.] Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was staged--with...
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From: Samuel Beckett Today[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Gontarski appraises Beckett's reworking of his earlier plays and the changes they have undergone, paying particular attention to Play.] In the early 1960s the nature of Samuel...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsWhen Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) opened at the The[ac]a[ci]tre Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, the French dramatist and critic Jean Anouilh compared the event to the historic opening of...
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From: Literature and the Grotesque[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Catanzaro argues that the dismembered bodies of couples in Beckett's works are metaphors for the failure of communication in relationships.] Beckett's plays of the late 1950's...
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From: Word and Text[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Creedon argues that Shepard’s early plays co-created with Joseph Chaikin, Tongues, Savage/Love, and The War in Heaven: Angel’s Monologue, draw parallels between the crisis of...
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From: Centennial Review[(essay date fall 1998) In this essay, Riquelme seeks to align literary modernism, as represented by the writings of Samuel Beckett, with postcolonial theory, as represented by Bhabha's ideas, because of their mutual...
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From: Messiahs and Machiavellians: Depicting Evil in the Modern Theatre[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Corey examines Waiting for Godot in relation to Saint Augustine’s and Jacques Derrida’s approaches to eschatology.] Augustine, Derrida, and Beckett—Waiting Waiting for Godot...
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From: Comparative Drama[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Tassi suggests options for staging Shakespearian plays in light of Beckett's absurdist theater.] Comparisons of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett have been popular...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 15. )In a story with Dante in the title and in which the protagonist bears a name taken from Dante, readers expect allusions to the greatest of medieval poets. In "Dante and the Lobster," the work that in many ways commences...
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From: Yale French Studies[(essay date spring-summer 1962) In the following essay, Cohn studies the layers of reality and unreality in Beckett's plays and discusses the characters' awareness of the symbiotic nature of these (un)realities.]...
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From: Beckett: The PlaywrightEndgame is constructed in more or less clearly defined sections which are 'played without a break'; the sections being frequently marked off by pauses but never by an interval as significant as that between the movements...
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From: the New York Times MagazineA drama critic for the New York Times, Schumach examines Waiting for Godot's character motivation in this article, drawing on the perceptions of the actors who appeared in the play's original Broadway run. Now that...
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From: The Sewanee ReviewIn Waiting for Godot, Mr. Samuel Beckett has put a large rampagious cat among the pigeons, the journalistic-critic ones, and perhaps the philosophic theoretic breed. "Mere music-hallery," some of the former judged,...
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From: Yiddish[(essay date Summer-Fall 1985) In the following essay, Pladott examines the role of the amorous male protagonist as a central figure in Singer's fiction. According to Pladott, these recurring characters underscore man's...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Waiting for Godot is seen by many critics as a parable of man's hope and persistence in the face of disappointment, and by some as an absurd, repetitive study in futility. The latter take their cue from the reiteration...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date fall 1999) In the following essay, Gontarski finds Play to be a crucial element in the formation of Beckett's theatrical sensibility.] To date none of the commonly available English texts for Samuel...