Preface
Chronology
Part I. En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot: Genesis and Reception: 1. Beckett at the beginning
2. Paris 1946-8
3. Godot in Paris, London and New York
Part II. Approaching the Play: 4. The drama of unknowingness
5. The caged dynamic
6. Rituals and routines
7. 'Godet ... Godot ... Godin ... anyhow you see who I mean?'
8. Pozzo and Lucky
9. Lucky's 'think'
10. Enter the Boy
11. Act I/Act II - 'nothing happens, twice'
12. Pozzo redux
13. Vladimir's soliloquy, the boy again, the close of the play
Part III. Godot in French and in English
Part IV. The Presence of Godot ... the Play in the Contemporary Theatre and Elsewhere: 14. The growing myth of Godot
15. Godot and the popular imagination
16. Godot and the contemporary theatre
Guide to further reading.
