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Vladimir

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Two
Time & Place
A barren road, a single tree
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?

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He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can’t go on! (Pause.) What have I said?

For the full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. Grove Press, 1954, pp. 110-111.

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