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Characterisics of Absurd Drama in Samuel Berclay Becket's "Waiting for Godot"

Samuel Berclay Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish poet, essayist, dramatist and novelist, who was awarded a literary Nobel prize in 1969. He was a bilingual writer: at first, he wrote his works of literature in English, then the majority of them in French which were published from 1929.
He met complete success when one of his plays with the title Waiting for Godot was shown in Paris in 1953. At this time, he became a world-famous playwright, since he renovated the genre of the drama. He was the most extremist representative of the genre of the absurd drama.
The drama containing two acts is about the destiny of four people and a situation, vegetation on the periphery of life. ‘Beckett originally intended to make Godot a three-act play, but finally decided that two acts were enough to suggest that Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky and the boy, will go on meeting in increasingly reduced physical and mental circumstances but will never not meet again.’ The drama expr...

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