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Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

April 2, 2015 - Maureen Clark

Letter from Samuel Beckett to Maya Peron. Dated June 12, 1969. The Carlton Lake Collection. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. All rights reserved.

Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Clark shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Undergraduate

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