Drama : Waiting for Godot

Drama : Waiting for Godot  

started in the early 20th Century by a group of dramatists who considered Theatre of Absurd themselves intellectuals and wanted to show their reaction to the realistic dramatists of the gainst the 19th Century who were very popular in their time. The Theatre of Absurd was a reaction arealistic drama of the 19th Century.

Drama - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Act one analysis

Part one : Act I (1)

Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett

      Two shabby men who seem to be old friends meet on the side of a country road near a leafless tree. The first, Estragon, has been beaten up, and the second, Vladimir, suffers from groin pain and frequent urination.

List of the Main and Flat or secondary characters in "Waiting for Godot"

 List of the Main characters in "Waiting for Godot" 

Estragon: 

Estragon One of the two main characters of the play, along with Vladimir, Estragon is rather helpless on his own. In the beginning of the play, he struggles just to take off his boots, for example.

Drama - Waiting For Godot : INTRODUCTION

 Waiting For Godot.

INTRODUCTION

Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, in County Dublin, Ireland. As a youth,Beckett experienced severe bouts of depression that kept him bedridden; he reflected, "I had little talent for happiness," an observation that would later provide an undercurrent in much of his writing.

Theatre of Absurd - Absurd Drama

Theatre of Absurd 

    Started in the early 20th Century by a group of dramatists who considered  themselves intellectuals and wanted to show their reaction to the realistic dramatists of the  19th Century who were very popular in their time.