{"product_id":"waiting-for-godot-annotated-text-with-an-introduction-by-javed-malick-and-critical-essays","title":"Waiting for Godot: Annotated Text with an Introduction by Javed Malick and Critical Essays","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBibliographic Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Title:\u003c\/strong\u003e Waiting for Godot: Annotated Text with an Introduction by Javed Malick and Critical Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Samuel Beckett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Javed Malick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9789367219164\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition (2027)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Literature \u0026amp; Fiction \u0026gt; Drama \u0026gt; Modern Drama \u0026gt; Theatre of the Absurd \u0026gt; Annotated Critical Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecommended Age Group:\u003c\/strong\u003e 16+ years; suitable for undergraduate, postgraduate, theatre studies, literary criticism, and advanced literature readers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReading Difficulty:\u003c\/strong\u003e Advanced\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEstimated Reading Time to Finish:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9–11 hours\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrice:\u003c\/strong\u003e ₹ 345.00\/-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts\u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Beckett\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eJaved Malick\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe play centres on \u003cstrong\u003eVladimir\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eEstragon\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis edition further enriches the reading experience through a selection of critical essays by scholars such as \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew K. Kennedy, James L. Calderwood, A. Alvarez, Gunther Anders, Jeffrey Nealon, Wolfgang Iser, Hugh Kenner, Terry Eagleton, Ruby Cohn,\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBert O. States\u003c\/strong\u003e. These essays approach the play through theatricality, language, postmodernism, audience response, plot, time, and Beckett’s dramatic method. 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