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    <body><![CDATA[I debated adding a spoiler warning, but you've already read the title so what's the use?<br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Rosencrantz &amp; Guildenstern Are Dead" title=" Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"> Rosencrantz &amp; Guildenstern Are Dead</a> is likely the best play I've ever had the pleasure of reading. The play tells the story of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Hamlet" title=" Hamlet"> Hamlet</a> through the eyes of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, his oft-co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16920710">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;We do onstage the things that are suppose to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.&quot;<br/><br/>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead can be seen as Stoppard's answer to the question what are the minor characters of the play H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14966478">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a fantastic look at the world of Hamlet through the eyes of two minor characters from the play.<br/><br/>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are a dynamic duo of characters. They are the Gilligan and Skipper, Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy of literature.<br/><br/>Without giving too much away...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3428251">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This re-read could not have come at a better time deep in the midst of existential crisis #522.  This is the clever tragicomic meta-play of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  They are summoned, they bumble about, they play questions, they are entirely confounded by the hubbub surroundi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33723950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wild and hilarious ride from Stoppard through Rosencrantz and Guilderstern's tragic five seconds of fictional fame. Once you've read the book, go see the movie. With Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss, it's a great adaptation of an amazing play.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern seem able to contemplate themselves from the outside (a perspective held up by the switch between modern language form and Shakespearean Hamlet).  I found myself rereading many of the passages where they were arguing because it was just so metaphysically amusi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3762936">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First off: I read this for AP Lit and Comp... aaaand I absolutely adored this play. It's perfect. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the characters, play off of each other and balance each other out, all at the same time. For the most part the play is a wild ball of nervous energy. Ros &amp; Guil are constan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47044240">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am writing this review as part of a project for my college preparatory English class.  <u>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead</u> is a twentieth century play based off of one of Shakespeare's most famous sixteenth century plays titled <u>Hamlet</u>.  This comical, yet modern dramatic play tells the story of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57553391">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play within a play containing a play within a play. It all gets quite confusing in the end, and while I understand the point of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’s choppy nature, it comes across as incohesive and junvenile. You almost need to interfus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42152060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The play is hilarious and I kept wanting someone else to have a copy so I could read it aloud and act it out. I've only ever seen the movie and even when I was watching that at home four years ago, as much as I enjoyed it, I couldn't help but think that it must work so much better on stage. So much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38945387">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually an interesting parody of Hamlet because it told the story from a completely different view. Yes, it made fun of some of the finer points in Hamlet but it was also completely random at the same time. The play is heavy in its existentialism and that was annoying at some parts but ove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11043678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This play is absolutely hilarious.  It's dry, subtle, and intelligent  humor appeals exactly to my tastes.  It also offers some very interesting discussion about death.  What is it?  How does one take his own death?  Is an acted death more or less convincing than a real one?  All good question set a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44823488">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My high school put on this play 4 years ago and I was on tech crew so I spent everyday after school with props, set construction, and painting scenery. I'll never forget sitting in that tall wagon painting a waterfall! Everyday after school for a week I was in that thing!-but the point is that I got...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53425838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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