Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times
- Written by Mark Byron, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sydney
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let’s go.
[They do not move.]
Samuel Beckett originally subtitled his 1953 play Waiting for Godot “a tragicomedy in two acts”. Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.”
Two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait on the...





