Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot (sometimes subtitled: tragicomedy in 2 acts) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952 by Grove Press, after having been refused by more mainstream publishers. Beckett originally wrote Godot in French, his second language, as En attendant Godot (literally: While Waiting for Godot). The simplicity of the dialogue reflects this French origin. An English translation by Beckett himself was published in 1955.

Quotations

Estragon: Let's go.

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Vladimir: We can't.

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Estragon: Why not?

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Vladimir: We're waiting for Godot.

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Estragon: (despairingly). Ah!

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