The British Library's digital archive reveals early objections to Samuel Beckett's play alongside other records of classic works' early livesToday, Waiting for Godot is the most celebrated of Samuel Beckett's plays, but newly digitised material from the depths of the British Library shows how its first audiences responded in horror to its "lavatory references", while some anticipated that "this ugly little jet of mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM on September 11, 2017