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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Grove Press Catalog: Book Release date: 1994-01-21 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 128 Ean: 9780802132758 Book Isbn: 0802132758  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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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.
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Written on November 26, 2007 Summary: A grand aimlessness I first saw this as a film. It was so good that I bought the VHS version. The characters' existential wonderings are a bit of a smack in the face. And yet, there is a certain laughing at the darkness. Call it whisteling past the graveyard. We all know the end, but we argue against it until is it upon us. And even then. And that is what it is. In the end, aren't we all supporting characters in someone else's play? And we all call for some direction.... Written on October 29, 2007 Summary: "Uncertainty is the normal state" Sometimes a book we read a long time ago becomes newly relevant in unexpected ways. Forty years ago, the plight of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern resonated with a generation scarred by the Vietnam War. These two bit players are mired in uncertainty. They "were sent for, in a matter of extreme urgency" - "there was a message, a summons", but they have no idea what is expected of them. They feebly protest: "we are entitled to some direction.. I would have thought". Their bewilderment yields to submission when they meet Claudius and Gertrude, who entreat them to divert Hamlet and uncover the cause of his melancholy. R&G are "kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened". They are swept into a whirlpool of events over which they have no control. "Uncertainty is the normal state" concludes Guildenstern (or is it Rosencrantz? Their names and roles become increasingly confused as the play progresses). "We only know what we are told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true". When they think they have grasped what their mission is, the mission changes: instead of humoring Hamlet, they are supposed to deliver him to his death. While they are still grappling with this revelation, the situation changes again: now it's R&G who are to be killed. "Who'd have thought that we were so important?" muses Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern tries to retrace the sequence of events:"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, when we could have said - no. But somehow we missed it". Their death is pointless, gratuitous. As the corpses pile up on stage, the play ends with Horatio's epilogue: "..so shall you hear of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, and in this upshot, purposes mistook fall'n on th' inventors' heads: all this can I truly deliver".  Written on October 16, 2007 Summary: Absurdly Tragic, Tragically Absurd This play is such a gem. It has entertained me for years (30 years I believe). I cannot recommend it to enough people. Written on March 21, 2007 Summary: hamlet retold another great stoppard effort but it only makes sense if you are familear with Hamlet otherwise don't bother. Written on January 27, 2007 Summary: Cheeky and fun with Hamlet's serious overtones If you understand Shakespeare's Hamlet (more than just a little) and you can grasp at the concepts of existentialism and absurdity, then you will love this play! |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1994-01-21 | 2003-07-01 | 1994-01-18 | 1990-07-01 | 1989-03-13 |
| Media | Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Format | - | - | - | Unabridged | - |
| Number of pages | 128 | 400 | 128 | 72 | 144 |
| Ean | 9780802132758 | 9780743477123 | 9780802130341 | 9780486264646 | 9780679720201 |
| Book Isbn | 0802132758 | 074347712X | 0802130348 | 0486264645 | 0679720200 |
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