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| rdfs:comment | - Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett that premiered in 1953. It follows two friends, Vladimir and Estragon, as they wait by a tree for someone named Godot. The play has generated much controversy, with many critics and scholars arguing that it is an allegory of the Cold War, having homoerotic overtones, or holding Biblical interpretations of Godot as God.
- Beckett was quite open that Waiting for Godot was deliberately written in violation of the fictional conventions of the day. Thus, the play is absurd as a matter of course. Critics have read all manner of meaning into Godot's failure to appear, as well as the dramatic changes certain characters experience from the first act to the second.
- The two main characters in the play are tramps named Vladimir and Estragon. They are waiting for an unseen character named Godot who never arrives. The two seem to believe that Godot will make their lives better, in an unspecified way.
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| abstract | - Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett that premiered in 1953. It follows two friends, Vladimir and Estragon, as they wait by a tree for someone named Godot. The play has generated much controversy, with many critics and scholars arguing that it is an allegory of the Cold War, having homoerotic overtones, or holding Biblical interpretations of Godot as God.
- Beckett was quite open that Waiting for Godot was deliberately written in violation of the fictional conventions of the day. Thus, the play is absurd as a matter of course. Critics have read all manner of meaning into Godot's failure to appear, as well as the dramatic changes certain characters experience from the first act to the second.
- The two main characters in the play are tramps named Vladimir and Estragon. They are waiting for an unseen character named Godot who never arrives. The two seem to believe that Godot will make their lives better, in an unspecified way.
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