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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN A
Title: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN A
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 639 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN A
Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is
the most famous modern example of a tour de force in which the
action in "Hamlet" is viewed through the eyes of two of the bit
players, Hamlet's college friends, who accompany him on his trip to
England. We know "Hamlet" is about Hamlet. They think it's about
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. There's an old joke about the actor
who is hired to play the gravedigger in "…showed first 75 words of 639 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 639 total…foreground and the Shakespeare background.
The irony, then, is that the parts of Stoppard's film that
work best are exactly the ones that have nothing to do with the
original inspiration behind "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern." To
examine this irony in another way, the movie "Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern" is about a troupe of players who briefly visit a story
about some bit players on the outskirts of a great tragedy. Talk
about opening out of town.
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