Waiting for Godot: Annotated Text with an Introduction by Javed Malick and Critical Essays

Bibliographic Details

Book Title: Waiting for Godot: Annotated Text with an Introduction by Javed Malick and Critical Essays

Author: Samuel Beckett

Editor: Javed Malick

ISBN-13: 9789367219164

Pages: 300

Edition: First Edition (2027)

Binding: Paperback

Genre: Literature & Fiction > Drama > Modern Drama > Theatre of the Absurd > Annotated Critical Edition

Recommended Age Group: 16+ years; suitable for undergraduate, postgraduate, theatre studies, literary criticism, and advanced literature readers

Reading Difficulty: Advanced

Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 9–11 hours

Price: ₹ 345.00/-

Description

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett is one of the most important plays of modern drama and a central work in twentieth-century literature. This edition presents the annotated text with an introduction, notes, and a selection of critical essays by Javed Malick, making it especially valuable for students, teachers, scholars, and readers of English literature and theatre studies. The volume is designed not only as a reading edition of the play but also as a critical companion that supports interpretation, classroom discussion, and academic study.

The play centres on Vladimir and Estragon, two figures who wait for the mysterious Godot while passing time through conversation, silence, memory, humour, repetition, anxiety, and fragile companionship. Through its minimal setting and apparently simple action, Beckett opens profound questions about existence, faith, habit, suffering, time, language, hope, and the search for meaning. The play’s tragicomic force lies in its ability to turn waiting into a dramatic condition that reflects the uncertainties of human life.

This edition further enriches the reading experience through a selection of critical essays by scholars such as Andrew K. Kennedy, James L. Calderwood, A. Alvarez, Gunther Anders, Jeffrey Nealon, Wolfgang Iser, Hugh Kenner, Terry Eagleton, Ruby Cohn, and Bert O. States. These essays approach the play through theatricality, language, postmodernism, audience response, plot, time, and Beckett’s dramatic method. With its annotated structure and scholarly apparatus, Waiting for Godot is an excellent resource for modern drama courses, absurd theatre studies, literary criticism, and serious independent reading.

Key Features

• Annotated edition of Samuel Beckett’s landmark modern play.
• Includes introduction and notes by Javed Malick.
• Features the complete tragicomedy in two acts.
• Useful for modern drama and theatre studies courses.
• Includes a selection of major critical essays.
• Explores waiting, time, meaning, language, and existence.
• Covers Theatre of the Absurd and European modernism.
• Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Strong resource for exams, essays, and classroom study.
• First Edition 2027 from Doaba Publications.

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Year: 2027