Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin (Editor)
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- Pub. Date: January 1994
- 128pp
- Sales Rank: 4,140
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 1994
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 128pp
- Sales Rank: 4,140
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- ISBN-13: 9780802132758
- ISBN: 0802132758
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and 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.
New York Times Book Review
This is a most remarkable play. Very funny. Very brilliant. Very chilling.
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Wonderful Readby NJouy
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November 20, 2009: If a play were cooked up like a stew, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead's recipe would be something like this: mix in a large pot Shakespeare's original play Hamlet, adding a liberal portion of Waiting for Godot and Abbot and Costello, with a pinch of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Let sit while you flip coins; serve with a sprig of uncertainty.
Stoppard's play is pure genius. While depending somewhat on Shakespeare's Halmet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern follows what would have been offstage: the (mis)adventures of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.or is it Guildenstern and Rosencrantz? Even they mix each other up. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a read for everyone, all ages, through the ages. With wit and humor the play disassembles and reassembles life's big questions, calling certain conventions meaningless with playing within those conventions: a play's got to begin and end somewhere. A fabulous read.a reviewerby Anonymous
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November 19, 2007: I loved this play. In this play the cast I was with was awesome! Tom Stoppard captured such hilaritly writting this play. My favorite line (out of the WHOLE play) was 'Were actors were the opposite of people!'
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