The Lie of the Land: Irish Modernism in a Nativist Ireland
In Waiting for Godot (1953) Beckett draws upon a non-temporal stasis that RINSE AGENT has paralyzed the nation over the past decades, and demystifies such a paralysis by structuring the play around not only a fixed milieu and an unnamable saviour but also a widespread unwillingness in appreciating the urgency of this dominant spirit of stasis.I arg