Estragon (with Steve Martin as Vladimir). Beckett is even said to have wanted Marlon Brando in one production (with Buster Keaton as Vladimir). In Tom Stoppard's "Godot" pastiche, "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", the character Rosencrantz closely resembles Estragon. Estragon Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". His name is the French word for tarragon. Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main characters, much in contrast to his companion Vladimir's careful intellectualism and verbosity. He cares little for appearances, and is mostly
Frances Beckett his artistic sensibilities. The Sinclairs' business interests suffered under the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and they returned to Ireland. Cissie Beckett found family life encroached on her artistic activities and she was further restricted in her work by arthritis towards the end of her life. Frances Beckett Frances Beckett (1880-1951), Irish artist, was the paternal aunt of Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Her father was William Beckett and her brother William, one of four brothers, was Samuel Beckett's father. Beckett studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and in Paris at Colarossi's studio, where she went