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Waiting for Godot (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d oʊ / ⓘ GOD-oh or / ɡ ə ˈ d oʊ / ⓘ gə-DOH [1]) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. [2]
Godot (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d oʊ / GOD-oh) [a] is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license.It was initially developed in Buenos Aires by Argentine software developers Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur [6] for several companies in Latin America prior to its public release in 2014. [7]
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character" 1) of Godot, he represents the intellectual side of the two main characters (in contrast to his companion Estragon's earthy simplicity). One explanation of this intellectualism is that he was once a philosopher.
It was made by the blacksmith Godot in response to a request by his liege lord for a weapon that could slay a dragon. The sword's ungainliness was by design; tired of the constant requests he got from nobles for 'elegant' weapons, Godot made the Dragonslayer as a somewhat sarcastic commentary.
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
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