Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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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From: Amazon
Posted: Aug-13-2009

DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE EDITION!!!

I bought the Kindle edition of the play and received commentary rather than the actual play. I don't know if Amazon is aware of this mistake, but until they are, DO NOT BUY THIS.

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Posted: Jun-12-2009

An old favorite

I've been a huge fan of this play for years (and the movie) and got it to see about staging it at the high school where I teach. I think it is a bit too much for the kids - very wordy and requires a deep knowledge of Shakespeare to be done well. They did enjoy the film and I think it provided...

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Posted: May-31-2009

Neat View of Existance

Stoppard takes two minor characters from Hamlet and turns them into two everyman (anti) heroes. It takes the epic events of Hamlet and shows them from the point of view of two fellows who have no idea what is going on and just want to get out of it alive, which as the plays title suggest is not...

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Posted: Mar-15-2009

In a tragedy even minor characters die

Screen plays serve several purposes; when the follow the film closely you get to slowdown and have time to savor the nuances. They also work as an external memory so you can revisit your favorite parts of the story. I could not tell my shoe was untied unless it was pointed out. I use screen plays...

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Posted: Nov-24-2008

A very boring play, BUT...

I gave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead only one star, because that's how I felt about this play when I first saw it performed. At the time, I was just a kid who was unfamiliar with the story of Hamlet. To me it was boring, made no sense, and was not the least bit funny.HOWEVER... If you...

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Posted: Oct-24-2008

Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead

Great piece of writing, especially since it borrows characters from the greatest playwright in English literature. Shakespeare's characters fare marginally better under Stoppard's pen, or possibly more so when you consider that the guys are DEAD!!!

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Posted: Aug-29-2008

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dull.

I read the book first (I ALWAYS read the book first) and I was puzzled. Where was the wit? The Shakespearian sense of humor is certainly not always mine to say the least, but I'm not used to feeling as if I simply missed the boat entirely. I suppose my overall reaction would have to be a...

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Posted: Apr-03-2008

Brilliant.

No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play. This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, when ridiculous plots and...

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Posted: Feb-15-2008

grossly overrated

Hard to believe all the good reviews here. This is a silly little book, with no story, no coherent dialog, and no meaning. Worst of all the jokes are not funny.

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Posted: Nov-26-2007

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...

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