Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot ( ) is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters. "Waiting for Godot" is Beckett's translation of his own original French play, , and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the , Paris. The English
Mise en abyme (in literature and other media) appearing medium, it only occurs. If the occurrence IS discussed (or if mise en abyme triggers reflections on the respective medium, the construction of the text etc.), mise en abyme is combined with metareference. Mise en abyme (in literature and other media) Mise en abyme (also mise-en-abîme, French "to put in the abyss", [miːz ɒn əˈbɪːm] is a transgeneric and transmedial phenomenon, which can occur in all literary genres, in comics, films, paintings and other media. It is a form of similarity and/or repetition (hence a variant of self-reference) occurring within works of arts and the media. "Mise en abyme"