 | David Bradby - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 324 pages
...song Vladimir sings at the beginning of Act n of Godot: A dog came into the kitchen and stole a loaf of bread then cook up with a ladle and beat him till he was dead '.The other dogs came running ~• and dug the dog a tomb and wrote upon the tombstone for the eyes... | |
 | David Bradby - Drama - 1991 - 352 pages
...song Vladimir sings at the beginning of Act n of Godot: A dog came into the kitchen and stole a loaf of bread then cook up with a ladle and beat him till he was dead 68 The other dogs came running and dug the dog a tomb and wrote upon the tombstone for the eyes of... | |
 | Kenneth Kramer, John S. Larkin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 308 pages
...meaningless activity. and each struggles to achieve an identity through the quiet despair of waiting. The second act repeats the first; there is "nothing...wrote upon the tombstone For the eyes of dogs to come . . .13 2l3 Mouths As absurd as their situation becomes. Vladimir and Estragon still keep up the pretense... | |
 | Enoch Brater - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 334 pages
...popular, oral literature — the song that Vladimir sings at the opening of Act II of Waiting for Godot. A dog came in the kitchen And stole a crust of bread....Then all the dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb And wrote upon the tombstone For the eyes of dogs to come: A dog came in the kitchen . . . etc. This... | |
 | Eric S. Christianson - Religion - 1998 - 314 pages
...frustration. In the second act Vladimir commences, in the same place as the first act concluded, with a song: A dog came in the kitchen And stole a crust of bread...Then all the dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb — And wrote upon the tombstone For the eyes of dogs to come: A dog came in the kitchen . . . Of course,... | |
 | Jennifer M. Jeffers - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 280 pages
...past the end of the repertory, in a repetition imaginable in terms of the self-contained doggerel of "A dog came in the kitchen / And stole a crust of bread." The doggerel repeats itself, contains itself, and becomes a signal of "the end of the repertory," of... | |
 | Elinor Fuchs, Una Chaudhuri - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 404 pages
...dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb And wrote upon the tombstone For the eyes of dogs to come: A dog came in the kitchen And stole a crust of bread. (37) # And so forth, as if fighting over the last scrap were a daily ritual as efficacious as waiting... | |
 | Lois Gordon - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 224 pages
...gesture. The circles reinforce Vladimir's endless "round" about the dog, with its focus on the grave: "Then all the dogs came running / And dug the dog a tomb." The vertical image of burial subsequently connects with many other activities, for example, Estragon's... | |
 | Donald McManus - Clowns in literature - 2003 - 198 pages
...clears his throat, resumes.) A dog came in the kitchen And stole a crust of bread. Then cook up with the ladle And beat him till he was dead. Then all the dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb — (He stops, broods, resumes.) Then all the dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb And wrote upon... | |
 | Alexander Polikoff - Law - 2007 - 444 pages
...thirty-ninth birthday. WAITING FOR GAUTREAUX PART ONE CHAPTER ONE UP WITH A LADLE A dog came in the kitchen O And stole a crust of bread. Then cook up with a ladle And beat him till he was dead. — Vladimir (Waiting for Godot) January 21, 1966. The moist snowflakes, melting as they hit the pavement,... | |
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Then all the dogs came running And dug the dog a tomb And wrote upon the tombstone For the eyes of dogs to come: A dog came in the kitchen And stole a crust of bread. 