Given the abstraction of Waiting for Godot, does it make sense to locate it in a particular historical moment?

... Given the abstraction of Waiting for Godot, does it make sense to locate it in a particular historical moment? Waiting for Godot is an extremely important play. In terms of the development of absurdist drama and of academic theory entering popular thought, this work is very significant. The play can only be understood within its historical context. As a piece of absurdist drama, indeed one of the defining moments of this genre, it relies heavily on philosophy and metaphor. Indeed the concept of 'the absurd' or the absurdity of the human condition, was firmly conceived just 10 years before Beckett opened the play in Paris 1956. In his book 'Being and Nothingness' Jean-Paul Satre, gave us the starting point for a quantitative shift in perceptions of existence. Stemming from Nizches bold and extremely effective statement 'God is Dead', Satre began to write on the innate futility of life, the nothingness

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