Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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• AP

  @apple213 · 4 years ago

  It is the beauty of internet that I am taking a lecture like this for free. That audience is lucky to sit there and listen your thoughts about this play in person.

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• AS

  @ashitasaggi2554 · 5 years ago

  Please count me in the people who were clapping in the last two seconds of the video. You deserve the loudest applaud.

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• SO

  @soniachauhan4459 · 2 years ago

  This is why we endure the internet despite all of its mindless distractions.

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• PE

  @peterfrengel3964 · 7 years ago

  You've illuminated what matters most about this play and its playwright. I've loved it for years, but couldn't quite articulate to myself or others what (beyond the bleak humor) moves me. The San Quentin anecdote is a wonderful starting point.

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• CO

  @cogniterra · 1 year ago

  It's a spectacular analysis.  Thank you so much.

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• WO

  @wolfbenson · 2 years ago

  I read WFG when I was young, in the US Navy off the coast of Viet Nam. Didn't really get it. Read it many times over the years and watched the play on Youtube a few times. Why would someone who didn't get it, return to it over and over? Because there is something intriguing in it. A  thing of beauty that we can't describe. A hole that shouldn't be there with an unknown depth. Fortunately, by flipping through various things on Youtube, this lecture came up. Now I understand what I don't understand. Absolutely brilliant lecture that opened many doors to different universes. Never thought I'd be able to see something invisible, but your lecture has changed my view.

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• SK

  @skttrbrian · 1 day ago

  Superb lecture, thank you for this. As an Irishman, I bristled a little at the descritpion of WfG as a 'French' play (although I know it was written in French).

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  @tanujraut9830 · 10 years ago

  Interpretation of a text which has no context, within a multitude of possible contexts, requires skill. This was great. Especially, the focus on 'waiting' as a medium for Time to show itself in the space of a stage. :)

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• IQ

  @iqiwq · 2 years ago

  I am just a random person and for me this is the best lecture of all times

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• JA

  @jasminekaur8760 · 4 years ago

  This lecture is so enriching and I feel so blessed to be able to hear it, thank you very much for this wonderful work and for uploading!

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• DE

  @deborasoliguetti9666 · 9 months ago

  I had to build a set for an absurd play for my final tech project. When it was done, I felt it was so simple and plain. After watching your lecture, I feel it all came together. It is about boredom.

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  @ananyadutta7303 · 8 years ago

  This is one of the most impeccable works I have seen on Beckett's play, Waiting For Godot. Thankyou so much for taking this initiative Sir Mount.

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