Title Casebook on Waiting for Godot / edited by Ruby Cohn

Published New York : Grove Press, [1967] New York : Grove Press, 1967

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Description 192 pages ; 21 cm Series An Evergreen original ; E-441 Evergreen original ; E-441 Contents Introduction -- Impact -- Paris, 1953 -- The First review / Sylvain Zegel -- Fellow writers / Anouilh [and others] -- The First director: Roger Blin / John Fletcher -- London, 1955 -- An English review / Harold Hobson -- An American reaction / Marya Mannes -- An Irish evaluation / Denis Johnston -- An Actor's recollections / Peter Bull -- Dublin, 1955 -- The First Irish Director / Alan Simpson -- Miami, 1956 -- The First American director / Alan Schneider -- New York, 1956 -- The Talent of Samuel Beckett / Eric Bentley -- Mankind in the Merdecluse / Henry Hewes -- A Public notice / Norman Mailer -- The Long wait for Godot / Alan Levy -- Other Americans -- Dialogue: the free Southern theatre -- Godot at San Quentin / Martin Esslin -- Interpretation -- The Making of Godot / Colin Duckworth -- Seven notes on waiting for Godot / Alfonso Sastre -- Life in the box / Hugh Kenner -- Notes from the underground / Herbert Blau -- Preparing for Godot -- or the purgatory of individualism / Darko Suvin -- Waiting for Godot / G.S. Fraser -- Waiting for Godot: myth, words, wait / Robert Champigny -- Art and the existential in waiting for Godot / Lawrence E. Harvey -- Image and Godot / Sue-Ellen Case -- The Net / John J. Sheedy -- Cyclical dramaturgy / Ludovic Janvier -- Beckett's clowns / Geneviève Serreau -- There's lots of time in Godot / Richard Schechner -- Bibliography Summary From the first French review in 1953 to the latest assessments and interpretations, this casebook is a history of the influence and significance of Waiting for Godot. The play is not only repeatedly performed and enjoyed, it is studied as a profound artistic statement, as a religious vision, and as a somber summation of man's hopeless but inexhaustible search for meaning. -- Back cover Analysis Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot - Examinations - Study guides Notes Bibliography: p. 188-192 Bibliography Bibliography: pages 188-192 Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot -- Examinations -- Study guides. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Genre/Form Study guides. Author Cohn, Ruby. Grove Press, publisher LC no. 67027886

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