The Connell Short Guide to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot - Softcover

Sophie Ratcliffe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907776788 ISBN 13: 9781907776786

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

For more than half a century, Waiting for Godot has enthralled and baffled theatre-goers in equal measure. Why did Beckett's first play have such an impact on post-war British drama? What was this famously elusive playwright trying to tell us in his two-act tragi-comedy about a pair of tramps? Drawing on what critics have said about Godot over the years, the Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe puts Beckett s masterpiece in perspective and crisply analyses what makes it so compelling.

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About the Author

Sophie Ratcliffe is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall where she teaches 19th and 20th-century literature. Her research focuses on literature and philosophy. Her first book, On Sympathy (2008) considered Beckett's ideas of pain, but she also likes thinking about comedy: her edition of the letters of P.G. Wodehouse was published in 2011. She regularly reviews fiction and criticism for the national press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907776788
• ISBN 13: 9781907776786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52
• Editor: Jolyon Connell