num_pages: 192
description: In this Readers' Guide, Peter Boxall traces critical responses to Waiting for Godot and Endgame from the 1950s to the present day. The guide presents the major debates that surround these works as they develop, from Martin Esslin's early appropriation of the plays as examples of the Theatre of the Absurd, to recent poststructuralist and postcolonial readings by critics such as Steven Connor, Mary Bryden and Declan Kiberd. Throughout, Boxall clarifies and contextualizes critical responses to the plays, and considers the difficult relationship between Beckett and his critics.
language: English
title: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot/Endgame: A reader's guide to essential criticism
titlecomplete: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot/Endgame: A reader's guide to essential criticism
genres: Fiction, Drama, Plays, Classics
ratings_count: 146
publisher: Red Globe Press