Waiting for Godot

Klappentext This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Beckett's most renowned dramatic work! Waiting for Godot. Zusammenfassung This 2004 volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's most renowned dramatic work! Waiting for Godot! which has become one of the most frequently discussed! and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Graver reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chronology; Part I. En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot: Genesis and Reception: 1. Beckett at the beginning; 2. Paris 1946-8; 3. Godot in Paris, London and New York; Part II. Approaching the Play: 4. The drama of unknowingness; 5. The caged dynamic; 6. Rituals and routines; 7. 'Godet ... Godot ... Godin ... anyhow you see who I mean?'; 8. Pozzo and Lucky; 9. Lucky's 'think'; 10. Enter the Boy; 11. Act I/Act II - 'nothing happens, twice'; 12. Pozzo redux; 13. Vladimir's soliloquy, the boy again, the close of the play; Part III. Godot in French and in English; Part IV. The Presence of Godot ... the Play in the Contemporary Theatre and Elsewhere: 14. The growing myth of Godot; 15. Godot and the popular imagination; 16. Godot and the contemporary theatre; Guide to further reading.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Samuel Beckett, Lawrence Graver
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780521549387
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54938-7
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Serien: Landmarks of World Literature; Landmarks of World Literature (New) S.
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft