4 MAY 1956, Page 34

Still Waiting

IT would have been easier to congratulate Ibt publishers on the speed with which 011 brought out the English text of Sanug Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Faber, 9c. 641 if in fact it was the English text. 01-11 publisher's note reveals that textual dela° were required by the Lord Chamberlain fi3i public performance of the play; and the "Tr sored words have also been omitted in b° text. Why? Is the Lord Chamberlain's 0.6d now to be extended to literature?

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