Waiting for Godot as a capitalist-aristocrat, and Lucky as labour-proletarian. This prompted Beckett to issue a rare statement, stating that the reaction was based on a misconception of the play. To Beckett, the play tries to not be able to be defined. The New York showing of the play was well-received with critics. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times praised Lahr for his performance as Estragon. 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
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"