Description: Closely examines the original stagings of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the point at which theatrical collaboration becomes co-authorship.
Brief description: S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett's Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn (2018).
Review Quotes: Using the same elegant and warm tone, not abandoning the curiosity that charges everything he pens with passion and excitement, Stanley Gontarski is now offering a new book on Godot. Another angle! Another perspective! And yet, the same fascinating attributes of great academic and cultural writing: expertise, rigour and analytic accuracy.--Octavian Saiu, President of The International Association of Theatre Leaders