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Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot (Bilingual)
by Samuel Beckett
Synopsis
Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot .
It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first published by Faber in 1956.
To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber are now publishing for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece.
Subtitled 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice'.
Waiting for Godot is also a play that was written twice.
Here, on facing pages, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.
Publication
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year 2015
Binding Paperback
Edition Older Edition
Pages 208
Language English
ISBN-13 9780571329656
ISBN-10 0571329659
LCC PR6003.E282
Waiting for Godot (Bilingual) is a British religious play written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber (2015).
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