Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this...
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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780802132758
Publish date: 21-01-1994
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Fiction
I saw the movie version of this with my dad when I was perhaps 12; I had no idea who Hamlet was (although I suspected he looked a lot like Mel Gibson at the time) and only vaguely understood that Shakespeare was A Thing. However, despite my lack of knowledge about the actual subject matter Stoppard ...
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