Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot - A Reference Guide

No modern play in the western dramatic tradition has provoked as much controversy or generated as much diversity of opinion as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Since its initial production in 1953, it has revolutionized the stage through its existentialism and apparent rejection of plot. This book is a valuable introduction to the play. It begins with a summary of the play and its origins and editions. It then explores the play's meaning and the historical and intellectual contexts informing Beckett's work. The book then examines Beckett's dramatic art and gives full coverage of the play's performance history. A bibliographical essay surveys the most important critical studies.

List of contents

Introduction
Summary
Texts
Meaning Intellectual Contexts
Dramatic Art
Performance
Bibliographical Essay

About the author

WILLIAM HUTCHINGS was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK.

William Hutchings is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Product details

• Authors: William Hutchings, Hutchings William
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2005
• EAN: 9780313308796
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30879-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 397 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama