ID: 700009439 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009439	Record Type: Conceptual

Waiting for Godot (play (performing arts composition); Samuel Beckett (Irish author and playwright, 1906-1989); 1952)

Note: Play written by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1952 and first produced in 1953. A work about the meaning of existence, it primarily focuses on conversations between the characters of Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for a person named Godot, who never arrives. "Waiting for Godot" is considered an example of the Theatre of the Absurd of the 1950s-1960s.

Titles:

Waiting for Godot (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

El attendant Godot (C,U,French-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: multiples

Work Types:

play (performing arts composition) [300201028] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name))

Classifications:

performing arts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1952

Creator Display:

Samuel Beckett (Irish author and playwright, 1906-1989) [preferred]

author Beckett, Samuel (Irish author and playwright, 1906-1989) [500116288]

Locations:

Other:

Display Materials: not applicable

Dimensions: not applicable

General Subject:

performing arts (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual works by class: for video, film, performing arts

Sources and Contributors:
Waiting for Godot	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 25 April 2018
El attendant Godot	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 25 April 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 25 April 2018