![]() As a great comedy writer, Stoppard manages this plot – or lack of it – with finesse. With only small appearances in Shakespeare’s play, in Stoppard’s version, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find themselves at a loose end for much of the time, left to hang around with little idea of what exactly is going on. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern suffer from a common post-modern literary condition the unsettling suspicion that they are both actually fictional. But that would only scratch the metaphorical surface. ![]() "We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off." Tom Stoppard’s most famous play is exactly that following two minor characters from Hamlet, Stoppard’s 1966 play could be described as a behind-the-scenes peek at the most dodgy Danish court in literature. ![]() ![]() Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard ![]()
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