make a poet green with envy.' -Stephen Spender 'Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.' -Paul Auster ' among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. The nonstory of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century.' -Christopher Isherwood, The New York Times, 'One of the true masterpieces of the century.' -Clive Barnes, The New York Times 'One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perpty&lexi with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.' - The Times (London) 'Beckett is an incomparable spellbinder. make a poet green with envy.' -Stephen Spender 'Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.'-Paul Auster ' among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century.

The nonstory of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century.' -Christopher Isherwood, The New York Times, Praise for Waiting for Godot 'One of the true masterpieces of the century.' -Clive Barnes, The New York Times 'One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.'- The Times (London) 'Beckett is an incomparable spellbinder. 'One of the true masterpieces of the century.' -Clive Barnes, The New York Times 'One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.' - The Times (London) 'Beckett is an incomparable spellbinder.

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