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.
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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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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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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
Tags International impact
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Abstract
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.
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