Waiting for Godot Resources

A movie version of Waiting for Godot from 2001.

A movie version of Waiting for Godot from 1991.

A made-for-TV adaptation of Waiting for Godot.

Another made-for-TV movie, but this one is in German.

1971, Made-for-TV, Swedish

A 1965 Czech version of Waiting for Godot.

A Norwegian made-for-TV version of the play.

Another made-for-TV movie of Waiting for Godot.

Monsterpiece Theater's "Waiting for Elmo" from Sesame Street

A 1987 San Quentin Drama Workshop excerpt on Waiting for Godot.

This is Lucky’s speech, and it’s fantastic.

You should definitely check this out; it’s an audio of the play’s performance. You can really get a sense of Waiting for Godot as a dramatic work when you hear the lines spoken instead of just reading them on a page. No joke. Just do it.

A version of a book cover for the play.

An Albuquerque Performance poster.

A picture of Lucky and Pozzo on stage.

Here’s a shot of the stage setting in one performance. Rather bare, no?

Punning and computers; it doesn’t get much better than this.

Playbill cover from first London production.

This s the book cover for a Turkish edition of the play.

The cover of the first English edition of Waiting for Godot.

A photo of Samuel Beckett.

One of the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich that inspired Waiting for Godot.

Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. Here’s why.

A great fan site for Samuel Beckett.

Here’s a glossary of the terms used in Waiting for Godot, although most of these are regular old vocab words.

This one is a little more interesting – less of a dictionary and more of a companion. It explains many of the confusing references in the play.

The full online (and free!) text of Waiting for Godot, complete with pictures, which are fun to look at.