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Article: Samuel Beckett: Waiting For Godot: Analysis and Critique
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Beckett, Samuel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Waiting For Godot: Analysis and Critique
History of the Play.
En Attendant Godot was composed between 1947 and 1949 when Beckett was
experiencing his first of two great sustained bursts of radical originality.
The French version was published in 1952 and opened in Paris on January 5,
1953, for a run of more than 300 performances. The English version was
published in New York in 1954, played in London the following year, and had
its American premiere at Cocoanut Grove, Florida, on January 3, 1956. Bert
Lahr, star of the Florida presentation, played Gogo again when the show moved
to New York on April 19, with E. G. Marshall as Didi, Kurt Kasznar as Pozzo,
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