Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 141033502X
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2020-03-21
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645423843
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war-ravaged twentieth-century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated with the "Theatre of the Absurd," where his work displayed conventional plot and structure and utilized laughter as a prominent tool against despair. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Beckett's classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781535842259
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publisher
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1645423859
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war ravaged twentieth-century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated with the “Theatre of the Absurd,” where his work displayed conventional plot and structure and utilized laughter as a prominent tool against despair. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Beckett’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198822
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.” The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
Author : Vincent Verret
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2018-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781987653434
Master the material and ace any assignment with this innovative study guide series. This book is perfect for both students and teachers, as it produces true mastery of content knowledge and book details. Other study guides simply give basic details of the novel, meaning that students read over material without digesting or learning it. Other study guides take complex themes, concepts, and information and just regurgitate it to readers. This Study Guide series is different. Using the original text as a guide, you will learn to cite evidence from the text in order to complete and reflect on your reading.Designed under the guidance of an experienced and credentialed instructor, this study guide series GUIDES the learner to discovering the answers for themselves, creating a fully detailed study guide, in the user's own words. Filled with guided reading activities, students are able to fill this guidebook with their own information. If you read it, write it, and reflect on it, you will learn it!Teachers, you can also purchase a set of these books (or one book and make copies) for your entire class. It makes the perfect guided reading activity and will teach students how to internalize the reading, note taking, and learning process that advanced readers naturally perform. These make the perfect workbook to keep your class engaged and learning.
Author : Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1441156100
"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Contemporary Theatre Review Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text -it is also one of the most significant western cultural landmarks of the twentieth century. Originally written in French, the play first amazed and appalled Parisian theatre-goers and critics before receiving a harshly dismissive initial critical response in Britain in 1955. Its influence since then on the international stage has been significant, impacting on generations of actors, directors and audiences.
Author : Lawrence Graver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521549387
This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical art. He reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original French version and his English translation.
Author : Vincent Verret
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781726430777
Welcome to the best Study Guide for Waiting for Godot with this special Deluxe Edition, featuring over 100 pages of guided activities, diagrams, visual organizers, note-taking exercises, and essential questions! With sections aimed at citing evidence from the text, this study guide for Waiting for Godot is up to date with Next Generation, 21st Century, and Common Core skill requirements. This study guide for Waiting for Godot can be used as BOTH a study guide for readers/students AND an instructional guide for teachers. It is the perfect companion to introducing literature in any classroom! Master the material and ace any assignment with this innovative study guide series. This book is perfect for both students and teachers, as it produces true mastery of content knowledge and book details. Other study guides for Waiting for Godot simply give basic details of the novel, meaning that students read over material without digesting or learning it. Other study guides take complex themes, concepts, and information and just regurgitate it to readers. But, this Study Guide for Waiting for Godot is different. Using the original text as a guide, you will learn to cite evidence from the text in order to complete and reflect on your reading. Readers will self-generate additional notes within the structure provided by this Study Guide. Designed by a veteran educator, this study guide for Waiting for Godot GUIDES the learner to discovering the answers for themselves, creating a fully detailed study guide in the user's own words. Filled with guided reading activities, students are able to fill this guidebook with their own information.
Author : Gale research Inc
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780787616847
Annotation Give students the tools they need to make books and authors a meaningful part of their lives by introducing them to one of our "For Students" literary references. These resources are specially crafted to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers as well as the interests of general readers and researchers. Each title in the series provides understandable, comprehensive explanations of the most commonly studied poems, novels, dramas, epics and short stories as identified by an advisory board of teachers and librarians. No other literature references furnish such a high level of coverage -- all written in an unassuming tone that users will welcome. The references in the Gale Group's "For Students" series provide: -- Easy-to-read discussions of themes, plots and characters-- Easy-to-understand critical essays chosen specifically for students-- Analysis of each work's construction and historical context-- Photos, illustrations and other graphics-- And moreThe "For Students" series includes Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Shakespeare's Characters for Students and Epics for Students. They're sure to be a welcome addition to your library. Each volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 to 20 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each detailed, illustrated entry provides: -- An overview of the play-- A brief biography of the playwright-- A plot summary-- An annotated character last-- A discussion of the play's principal themes-- Essays on the play's construction-- Historical andcultural context sections that illuminate the play's role in inter-curricular studies-- Excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play-- Extensive subject/theme, ethnicity/nationality, and author/title in.
