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

MS-HRC-SB-6-4-1

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[p. cover]
WAITING
FOR
GODOT
ACT I
[p. ins.cover] [p. flyleafrecto]

2 vols.
CADD-

[p. flyleafverso] [p. 01r]
WAITING FOR
GODOT

PLAY IN 2 ACTS
BY
SAMUEL BECKETT
[p. 01v] [p. 02r]

PERSONAE

ESTRAGON
VLADIMIR
LUCKY
POZZO
A BOY [0001] ACT I
[0002] A COUNTRY ROAD. A TREE

[0003] EVENING
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[0004] Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. [0005] He pulls at it with both hands, panting. [0006] He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.
[0007] As before.
[0008] Enter VLADIMIR.

Vladimi

ESTRAGON

[0009] (Giving up again) [0010] Nothing to be done.

VLADIMIR

[0011] (advancing with short stiff strides, legs wide apart).

[p. 02v] [p. 03r]

VLADIMIR

[0012] I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. [0014] All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying, Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. [0015] And I resumed the struggle. [0016] (He broods, musing on the struggle. [0017] T Turning to Estragon.) [0018] So there you are again.

ESTRAGON

[0019] Am I?

VLADIMIR

[0020] I'm glad to see you back. [0021] I thought you were gone for ever.

ESTRAGON

[0022] Me too.

VLADIMIR

[0022|001] Together again at last! [0023] We'll have to celebrate this. But how? [0024] (He reflects.) [0025] Get up till I embrace you.

ESTRAGON

[0027] (irritably) [0028] Not now, not now.

VLADIMIR

[0030] (hurt, coldly) [0031] may one enquire where His Highness spent the night?

ESTRAGON

[0032] In a ditch.

VLADIMIR

[0033] (admiringly). [0034] A ditch! [0035] Where?

ESTRAGON

[0036] (without gesture) [0037] Over there.

VLADIMIR

[0038] And they didn't beat you?

ESTRAGON

[0038|001] Beat me? [0039] Certainly they beat me.

VLADIMIR

[0041] The same lot as usual?

ESTRAGON

[0042] The same? [0043] I don't know.

VLADIMIR

[0045] When I think of it... all those years... but for me... where would you be... [0046] (Decisively.)

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