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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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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-eve 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 s...more

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Published January 21st 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1967)

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Aug 06, 2008 Annalisa rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who enjoyed Hamlet

Shelves: movies, plays, literary, humor

I watched this movie years ago and thought it was hilarious so I thought I'd check out the play that inspired the film. It's the ramblings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern while Hamlet goes unnoticed, or at least misunderstood, by them in the background. In far over their heads, both in thematic prose and plot progression, what makes this play so hilarious is the irony. One of the few times irony can truly be claimed: the reader is aware of a humor lost on the characters when we have the foreknow...more I watched this movie years ago and thought it was hilarious so I thought I'd check out the play that inspired the film. It's the ramblings of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern while Hamlet goes unnoticed, or at least misunderstood, by them in the background. In far over their heads, both in thematic prose and plot progression, what makes this play so hilarious is the irony. One of the few times irony can truly be claimed: the reader is aware of a humor lost on the characters when we have the foreknowledge of the well-known fate of Rosen & Guild. My favorite part is the detached and indifferent discussion of death between Rosen & Guild when they think it's Hamlet forthcoming end but we the readers all know that it is their deaths they are tumbling towards unknowingly.

Their part-insightful, part-idiotic discussions on chance, fate, death, friends, and word play is amusing. One of my favorite lines "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself" is humorous because it is spoken by a seemingly nonsensical insane Guildenstern trying to appear intelligent about a Hamlet who is "stark raving sane" trying to appear unintelligent. The humor of self-evaluation in "talking nonsense not to himself" is lost on Guild.

I loved the questions game they played where they weren't allowed to make a statement, only ask questions and the rhetoric it produced. The incorrect assumptions they take on the mundane, taking nothing for given, even previously established facts was amusing as well. Such as: "The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter" received questions such as "He's in love with his daughter?" and "The old man is?" going back and forth until "Hamlet in love with the old man's daughter, the old man thinks" sets them straight. While their conversation is often idiotic, it is sometimes insightful, and amusing in both instances.

But while very witty, it was a little bit hard to follow at times, particularly the stage directions. It made me want to pull out Hamlet and reference the correlating scenes. It may be useful to have read Hamlet recently. I forgot what a great play that is. With the quick conversation and the double plays, I think the movie is a better forum for this and I'm putting this movie on my queue for a rewatch (and it was excellent once again). But what an original idea. Very funny. Give it a read or better yet go watch the movie.

A few of the quotes that struck me:
We're actors! We're the opposite of people.
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself. Or just as mad. . .Stark raving sane.
Shouldn't we be doing something... constructive? ... What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
In reponse to I don't believe in England: Just a conspiracy of cartographers?
We're still finding our feet ... I should concentrate on not losing your head.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well, at least I'm not dead.
We move idly toward eternity without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
If you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Death is not...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not being.(less)

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May 29, 2007 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone, though especially lovers of Shakespeare. Or snark. That works as well.

Shelves: theatre, brit-lit, po-mo, wits-and-fools, 20th-century-postwar-to-late

Brilliant. It's fitting to choose the British designation for how wonderful I think this play is, I believe. This play manages to be absolutely stand on its own hilarious, as well as a thoughtful meditation on many issues at the same time. It pushes neither on the viewer/reader on its own, nor predominantly. The satire is executed near flawlessly, and the comedic sensitivity (even in the saddest moments of the farce) could not be more on target. I very much usually wish to have some criticism to...more

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Feb 09, 2008 Matthew rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like wordplay/puns, philosophy or theatre buffs.

"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."

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead can be seen as Stoppard's answer to the question what are the minor characters of the play Hamlet doing while the tragic prince is agonizing and plotting? Stoppard's simple answer is "nothing".

R and G spend there time playing word games, musing on the nature of death and fate, and try--desperately and futilely--t...more

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Oct 30, 2007 Leigh rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: genre-drama, won-tony-award, academia-honors-thesis, saw-at-kenyon, assigned-high-school, 1950-1974, saw-film, own-film

ROS: I remember when there were no questions.
GUIL: There were always questions. To exchange one set for another is no great matter.
ROS: Answers, yes. There were answers to everything.
GUIL: You've forgotten.
ROS (flaring): I haven't forgotten--how I used to remember my own
name--and yours, oh, yes! There were answers everywhere you looked. There was no question about it--people knew who I was and if they didn't they asked and I told them.
GUIL: You did, the trouble is, each of them is . . . plausibl...more

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Jul 23, 2007 Anthony SanFilippo rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Hamlet fans

Just a fantastic look at the world of Hamlet through the eyes of two minor characters from the play.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are a dynamic duo of characters. They are the Gilligan and Skipper, Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy of literature.

Without giving too much away, the opening sequence of consecutive coin flips is hysterical, as is Rosencrantz's monologue about learning about death.

At the same time, it is so well written and introspective that it offers a real insight into the lives...more

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Sep 24, 2008 Jeeyun rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 surrounding the "much transformed" Prince of Denmark, and then they are sent to their feeble deaths as demanded by the grand scheme of the play. While the dialogue and physical antics of Rosencrantz, Guildenster...more

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May 04, 2008 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: school

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Jun 03, 2012 Liz rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead......then why write a 93 page play about them? I get it, it was the 60's people were high and found most things intellectually amusing, witty and necessarily redundant in an avante-garde sort of way. But seriously why? I found the play dragged and it didnt make me laugh.

My advice only read this book if you are a hipster as it is much easier to roll a copy of this up and cram into the back pocket of your skinny jeans than a copy of A Confederacy of Dunces.

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Apr 16, 2009 Carey rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-current-top-ten

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.

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Jul 29, 2007 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 amusing.

I borrowed this play from the Toronto Public Library, and they have the movie available on DVD, too, which I borrowed after reading the play. As usual, I think the book is much better- I missed a lo...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Hayley rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Words, words. They're all we have to go on,” Stoppard declares in this retelling of the Shakespearean play ‘Hamlet.’ Rozencrantz and Gildernstern are Dead is a quirky, lovable piece filled with wordplay and theoretical discussions. Stoppard is particularly concerned with the restrictions on expression inherent to the English language. It’s a manifesto about the language we use, how we present the art of theatre, and a new spin on a Shakespearean classic.
At once, Stoppard plays with words and b...more

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Feb 21, 2009 Devon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Devon by: Teacher

Shelves: favorites

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 & Guil are constantly getting on each others' nerves, annoying each other until they can't stand it anymore. But, then, when Rosencrantz gets worked up to the point of tears Guildenstern always comforts him. They r...more

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Mar 06, 2013 Chin Hwa rated it 3 of 5 stars

An absurdist play about nothing...

A wonderful irreverent summary of Hamlet:

Ros: A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic, if I may put it like that. It does not mean he is mad. It does not mean he isn't. Very often, it does not mean anything at all. Which may or may not be a kind of madness.

Guil: It really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicid...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Josh C rated it 5 of 5 stars

Honestly, I do not read for fun. I read because I have to. However, I will find a book that, when forced to read, makes me believe that if I did read for fun, I could enjoy it. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard was an amazing book! It was set from the point of view of two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet and was an all around joy to read. The book is written as a play, so it is easy to visualize what is happening in the plot.
One of my favorite aspects about the...more Honestly, I do not read for fun. I read because I have to. However, I will find a book that, when forced to read, makes me believe that if I did read for fun, I could enjoy it. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard was an amazing book! It was set from the point of view of two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet and was an all around joy to read. The book is written as a play, so it is easy to visualize what is happening in the plot.
One of my favorite aspects about the book is the intelligent side to it. In the beginning, the two protagonists are spinning coins and calling them as heads or tails. Guildenstern is spinning them and Rosencrantz is winning every time by calling heads. The total gets up to around 90 times in a row as heads. Instead of being overly amused with the fact that the coins are not landing on tails, Guildenstern begins hypothesizing as to why this happens. He talks about fate and many actual intelligent subjects. His monologues evoked many thoughts inside of me. His words made me think. I was so taken by this happening because many of the books I have read did not require much thought or could not have been equated into my own thoughts about my life.
The book introduces some new ideas about the world. For instance, at one point, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern run into a group called the Tragedians. The Tragedians are a traveling group of actors. They specialize in tragedies. However, they give the audience an opportunity to be involved in the plays. As the dialogue goes on between Guildenstern and Rosencrantz and the main Tragedian, Player, the reader realizes that the way the audience gets involved in the plays is a sexual way. A member of the group named Albert is the one who has to do the cross-dressing and has to be sexually victimized. The freaky part about the Tragedians was that they only did what they did because they would do anything for money. I knew people in modern times did explicit things for money, but I never knew that people in the Elizabethan era also participated in those sorts of activities.
I was skeptical about reading the book because I have not read Hamlet, but that did not make a difference. In the book, the characters are confused about their identity, consciousness, and the universe. The book’s theme is mainly about the mysteries of the world and why things are the way they are. It is a great book for gaining insight or a new point of view. The way the book is written seems to be comedic, but in reality points out all the flaws of our world.
In addition to bringing about a new view on various subjects, the book is witty and exciting. This was definitely a good choice to read because I was intellectually stimulated while doing a school assignment. I encourage everyone to read it, but only if you think you can handle a new reality.
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Jan 31, 2013 Kate Jacobson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, classics, read-in-2013, favorites

Utterly and completely brilliant! I thoroughly enjoyed it, after I accepted that it was going to be a little bit pretentious.

What I really like is that the play doesn't push you to take one position or another - it presents argument after argument after argument, throws it's hands up and says "your turn." The style is pun laden to the extreme, and while I picked up a ton on my first read through, I imagine that my second and third and fourth reads will be even more rewarding. Which is always a...more

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Jan 31, 2013 Sanjana Daya rated it 5 of 5 stars

This play was brilliant! After reading Hamlet and exploring the intricacies of the human mind with the depth and seriousness of William Shakespeare, this comedic social commentary was a breath of fresh air. Stoppard takes the supporting characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from Hamlet and creates a play based on their relationship and thoughts during the entirety of Hamlet. However, instead of concentrating on Hamlet and his life, Stoppard uses these characters to explore concepts of life,...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Matthew rated it 5 of 5 stars

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a delightfully surreal glimpse into the world behind one of Shakespeare's most renowned plays. It delves into the lives of two of Hamlet's more obscure characters, giving them personalities and voices where Shakespeare had left them nearly indistinguishable and uncharacterized. Along the way, it raises questions about existentialism, probability and mysticism, and even lampoons the original play itself. I would heartily recommend it to anyone, regardless...more

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Dec 10, 2012 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard is a play about the perspective of these two men in the play "Hamlet" by Shakespeare. This play has more of a humorous aspect compared to "Hamlet". In the play, the two men are complete opposites but are both fairly dumb at the same time. As the play goes on the reader learns that Rosencarantz is the more laid back of the two, which means Guildenstern is always worrying about something.

The play is basically the same story line as "Hamlet", ju...more

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Nov 30, 2012 Paige C. rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard was a very interesting book that always kept you guessing about what would happen next? This book is an extension of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. It starts out with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern playing a game where they spin coins and pick either heads or tails and whoevers side it ends on gets to keep the coin. The coin lands on heads every single time, causing Rosencrantz to be the winner every single time. While Rose...more The book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard was a very interesting book that always kept you guessing about what would happen next? This book is an extension of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. It starts out with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern playing a game where they spin coins and pick either heads or tails and whoevers side it ends on gets to keep the coin. The coin lands on heads every single time, causing Rosencrantz to be the winner every single time. While Rosencrantz thinks nothing of the situation, Guildenstern is a little concerned at the impossible fact that the coin is landing on heads every single time and breaking the laws of probability. While he is unable to think of a reason why this strange event would happen he tries to recall things that have happened in the past and finds that he can’t remember anything. The story continues on to the scene in “Hamlet” where Queen Gertrude and King Claudius have summoned Rosencrantz and Guildenstern because Hamlet has been acting strange ever since his father’s death and they want them to help him return to his normal self. In order to find out what is really wrong with Hamlet they decide to have a mock interview. Guildenstern decides to pretend to be Hamlet while Rosencrantz questions him. After many questions they unravel the entire plot of “Hamlet”. The book continues through the play of “Hamlet” from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s point of view. Towards the end, it comes to the point where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are on the boat with Hamlet on their way to bring Hamlet and a letter to the King of England. Hamlet steals the letter while they are sleeping and finds out that it orders his death. He puts Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s names in place of his own and puts the letter back. The boat is suddenly attacked by pirates and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hide in barrels without any concern of whether Hamlet survived the attack or not. Guildenstern worries about what they will tell the King of England. They then discover that the Player, who was one of the actors from Hamlet’s play that reenacted his father’s death, was also hiding on the boat. The Player was already upset with them from the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern did not watch his performance and so he begins to fight with them. I don’t want to completely give away the ending but it was not surprising in any way and you could probably guess what happened just based on the title of the book, but if you really want to know I guess you will just have to read it yourself.
The ending of this book was a little disappointing because unlike the play “Hamlet” it was very predictable. The book obviously also had a lot of connections to the play “Hamlet” because it was an extension of that play. It had the same characters as “Hamlet” but it was interesting because you got to see the play from a completely different point of view which led to thinking that the theme of this book was that things are always different from a different person’s point of view, because although it was the same story being told, it was different because it was being told by different people. Throughout the play of “Hamlet” you only got to see the story from Hamlet’s point of view but in the book, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, you got to see it from two minor characters in “Hamlet”, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, which made this book very interesting. (less)

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Nov 30, 2012 Courtney N New rated it 2 of 5 stars

The book, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Stoppard is a parody of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare; the main characters are minor characters from a different play. I enjoyed this book, but it wasn't as entertaining as I thought it would be. I thought there would be more comedy, but it just seemed like the main characters were confused most of the time and didn't know what to do. Overall, I'd give the book two stars out of five.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is abou...more

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Nov 29, 2012 Eleni P rated it 4 of 5 stars

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard is a good tragicomedy and parody play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead follows what would have been Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s adventures in the late 1500's also known as the Elizabethan era. I believe that if you have read or seen Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this play will probably be of much interest to you. It is the story of two characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The play is comical and exciting. The two many times...more

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Sep 09, 2012 Ken Moten rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: people who read Hamlet, Shakespeare fans, people who go to plays in general(?)

Shelves: shakespeare-stuff, plays

It's Sunday and i have things to do so I am gonna procrastinate on those chores and review this play which I have procrastinated on reviewing.

This play is a not so much behind the scenes look into the world of The Prince of Denmark but a beside the scenes look. The two main characters (of this play) are not simply faceless generic plot devices but are our guide and almost Greek chorus into this world that we (presumably are familiar with and) are in. The examination of the world and how it work...more

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Jul 17, 2012 Robert rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: play, nonfiction, absurd, sas, undergraduate, muhlenberg

This is one of the standard plays one read when interested in modern drama. I first read it at SAS. It was a seminal moment for me. My teacher had spent a copious amount of time extolling the virtues of Hamlet. Hamlet this. Hamlet that. Hamlet could do no wrong. Being an adolescent nearing the end of his time in boarding school and who just didn't quite fit in had reached the time when he stepped out of the shadows. In our discussions this quiet boy blurted out, "Hamlet is an asshole."

I don't re...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Gloria rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Book club book; selected when I casually mentioned it when we were all brainstorming ideas… surprised when it was picked!

I was interested in this because Beta and I went to see a performance of Stoppard's Arcadia, which reminded me how much I enjoyed seeing his work (saw his Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge in London; wish I could see it again, but it is rarely staged since it does require an orchestra…)

This is one of Stoppard's earliest work, and it shows all the intelligence, brilliant word play...more

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Oct 20, 2011 Mattie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Heads.Tails.Heads.Tails.Heads.Tails.Heads.Tails. What are the odds of getting heads when you flip a coin? One out of two, right? Nope. Not in this story. The odds of getting heads is 100%. Every single time Rosencrantz flips his coin, he gets heads and wins over Guildenstern. Hamlet's young friends show off their true personalities in this play. They show off who they really are and where they really were during the critical moments in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Although people who have read Hamlet w...more

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Sep 22, 2011 Kathryn rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: play

I’ve been wanting to read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ever since I first heard of it, in one of the many retellings of Tam Lin that were all the rage a few years back. Someone mentioned it on another site recently, and I figured I might as well finally order it from Amazon.

For those who don’t know, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor players in Hamlet. They have a couple scenes here and there; they’re mostly little toadies who are trying to help the King against Hamlet. The titl...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Nic King rated it 3 of 5 stars

My AP English Lit class had assigned both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to be read within the year. Hamlet was finished in the beginning of the year, and R & G was read together as a class. I thoroughly enjoyed both perspectives of the Hamlet world, but reading this intellectually crafted yet absurd play aloud made it so much more enjoyable. By already reading Hamlet, aspects and even lines from the original are embedded in the work itself, giving Hamlet this alternate per...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Ryan Steele rated it 5 of 5 stars

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead follows two of Hamlet's best friends as they go about their own adventure while the widely known story of Shakespeare plays out in the background. The thing that I loved most about this book was it's use of meta based humor. That is, the characters were constantly asking questions and making jokes that were related to the events taking place around them, while also alluding to the fact that they would soon be dead. Stoppard pulled this through so well becaus...more

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Nov 15, 2010 Valetta rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Commedia dell'assurdo in cui due personaggi minori dell'Amleto di Shakespeare, Rosencrantz e Guilderstein appunto, assurgono al ruolo di protagonisti in un opera che è contemporaneamente commedia e dramma esistenzialista. All'inizio dell'opera Rosencrantz e Guilderstein si ritrovano in viaggio verso la corte di Danimarca, impegnati in una partita di "testa o croce" che sembra non avere inizio nè fine. Da quanto tempo giocano? Perchè sono in viaggio? Chi li ha convocati e perchè non hanno ricordo...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Bryan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Sheer brilliance: I've seen a few reviews here that say "read it, but don't go see it." Most of the time, I would probably agree, because most people who do the play don't get it; they think it's a straightforward comedy, and it is almost anything but.

R&G is all about pace; except for a couple of spots, if the pace isn't almost franticly precise, the end loses its entire effect. The beginning of the second act

"Hmmm?"
"Yes?"
"What?"
"I thought you..."
"No."
"Ahh."

takes a lot of work to get...more

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