"rovides a summary of the play's plot, a description of the various texts and editions available, a discussion of the play's intellectual content, an essay on its meaning, and overview of its dramatic art, a history of its performance worldwide through 2004, and a bibliographic essay directing readers to further reading." - Reference & Research Book News You may also be interested in. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice First produced in 1953, the play has fascinated an audience drawn by Beckett's questions: Why are we here? Are we alone in an uncaring universe? What are we to do while we are here? How can we know? And, ultimately, what does it matter? Though Hutchings provides no answers to these questions, he does provide an excellent guide to this complex and puzzling play. In particular, the conflicts over the performance of the work of Samuel Beckett raise questions about intellectual property, sexual discrimination, and racial discrimination. The play's meaning, if it has any, has left many playgoers spellbound and confused others. Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times Hugo Weaving (left) and Richard Roxburgh in Sydney Theatre Company’s Waiting For Godot in 2013.
Beckett's set is a lone tree, and his characters are only waiting-supposedly-for the central character, who never comes or communicates.
"Hutchings places Waiting for Godot on a par with Oedipus Rex and Hamlet in terms of meaning: the three plays have inspired more puzzled arguments than most other dramatic works.
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