Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett

LITTLE, James Joseph. Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett. In Richards, Shaun. Fifty Key Irish Plays. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2022, p. 79-81. Routledge Key Guides. ISBN 978-1-032-06649-3.

Basic information

Original name

Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett

Authors

LITTLE, James Joseph (372 Ireland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. London, Fifty Key Irish Plays, p. 79-81, 3 pp. Routledge Key Guides, 2022

Publisher

Routledge

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00126440

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-032-06649-3

Keywords in English

Samuel Beckett; Waiting for Godot; theatre; adaptation; prison

Tags

rivok, topvydavatel

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International impact

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Abstract

V originále

Written in French in postwar Paris, Waiting for Godot has gone on to become the most influential Irish play of the twentieth century, cited during political revolutions as well as on episodes of Sesame Street and Game of Thrones. When Samuel Beckett wrote the text, he had very little theatre experience and was living in straitened financial circumstances, but its success launched his career as a globally influential writer and director. Crucially, it was the material poverty of Godot’s stage – with its small cast of five playing against a simple outdoor backdrop containing a tree and a moon – that facilitated the play’s premiere at the experimental Théâtre de Babylone (En attendant Godot, 1953), as well as the many restagings and adaptations that have fuelled its huge cultural influence in the almost seven decades since.