Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst

Holding Library: Harry Ransom Center (MS DA/145/1)

Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as ET Albery

Playscript of Waiting for Godot preserved in the Donald Albery papers (Performing Arts Collection, HRC, box 145, folder 1). Apart from the red cover, the typed text is otherwise identical to that of ETLC. Annotations in blue ink are extensive, though not in Beckett's hand. Some bring the text in line with the cuts demanded by the Lord Chamberlain, or the Grove Press edition of the play, while still others are unique to this version. It is unclear if Beckett authorized these variants, but many of them found their way into the first British edition of the play (Faber and Faber, 1956). Grey pencil annotations are limited to Vladimir's lines, so the script possibly belonged to an actor who played this character.

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