Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 207. Chapters: Waiting for Godot, Metamorphoses (play), Arcadia (play), Private Lives, Amys View, An Inspector Calls, Twelfth Night, August: Osage County, Copenhagen (play), Picnic (play), A Delicate Balance (play), The Crucible, Joe Turners Come and Gone, Long Days Journey into Night, Seascape (play), The Homecoming, A Dolls House, A Streetcar Named Desire (play), The Piano Lesson, Inherit the Wind (play), Our Countrys Good, War Horse (play), You Cant Take It with You, Death of a Salesman, The 39 Steps (play), Journeys End, Closer (play), Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Night of January 16th, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Ondine (play), The Pillowman, A Thurber Carnival, Saint Joan (play), Uncle Vanya, Betrayal (play), Professor Mamlock (play), The Iceman Cometh, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, The Late Christopher Bean, A View from the Bridge, Hedda Gabler, Equus (play), Dancing at Lughnasa, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Our Town, The Deputy, The Odd Couple, Haila Stoddard, The History Boys, Twelve Angry Men, 8 (play), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (play), Marat/Sade, Amadeus, The Man Who Came to Dinner, I Remember Mama, Good People (play), Wit (play), Noises Off, Beyond the Fringe, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Excerpt: Waiting for Godot ( -oh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. Godots absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the plays premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century." Waiting for Godot is Becketts translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts." The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the Theatre de Babylone, Paris. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo. Waiting for Godot follows a pair of men who divert themselves while waiting expectantly, vainly for someone named Godot to arrive. They claim hes an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide - anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay." The play opens with Estragon struggling to remove a boot. Estragon eventually gives up, muttering, "Nothing to be done." His friend Vladimir takes up the thought and muses on it, the implication being that nothing is a thing that has to be done and this pair is going to have to spend the rest of the play doing it. When Estragon finally succeeds in removing his boot, he looks and feels inside but finds nothing. Just prior to this, Vladimir peers into his hat. The motif recurs throughout the play. The pair discuss repentance, particularly in relation to the two thieves crucified alongside Jesus, and that only one of the Four Evangelists mentions that one of them was saved. This is the first of numerous Biblical references in the play, which may be linked to its putative central the