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Title: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin ISBN: 0-8021-3275-8 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (66 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: interesting, funny, poignant, thoughtful
Comment: I just really loved this play. The way Stoppard manages to use the classic Hamlet as a foundation of his own, unique work of art is amazing and masterful. The play is funny and uses humor as a vehicle for some serious themes about fate vs. free will, death, life, and chance. This book isn't the type where one could just sit back and passively take in-it is engaging and forces the reader to think. So if you enjoy witty phrases but also intellectually stimulating ideas, buy a copy and read it! It is well worth the time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Where meanings become meaningless (but in a good way)
Comment: If this play did nothing else, it forced me to question and ultimately cease to believe that the theory of probability has any relivance beyond theory. This is Stoppard's typical game: twisting reality until nobody -- neither characters nor audience -- can even tell the difference between fact and fiction, between dreams and memory, or between what is and what only seems to be.
Shakespeare's Rosencrantz and Guldenstern, of the amusing but overrated "Hamlet", star as two victims of circumstance in this hundred-odd page deception. Little or no knowledge of Shakesperian language is required to enjoy this play, and while knowing the original story of "Hamlet" helps, it's not a necessity either. The play's real treasure lies in the essence of the characters' thoughts and actions, not in the significance of them. The Player, a mysterious leader of a troupe of traveling pornographers (no, this play features no graphic sex, or even graphic language), always conveniently shows up to confuse, clarify, and add a little humor to matters... not that the two bumbling heros need the help.
In addition to the brilliant philosophies contained in this work, Stoppard also graces us with absolute gems of characterization, settings that compliment the dialogue rather than crowding it, and a plot that weaves the aforementioned philosophies into itself without making the characters sound like lecturers or idiot children. Truely, this is Stoppard's greatest work -- as satisfying to read as to see on a stage... perhaps even more so.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliantly Witty
Comment: A beautiful play on the friends of Hamlet, Rosencratz and Guildenstern. While giving the tragedy of Hamlet from the totally different perspective of these two side characters, Stoppard delves into different questions and philosophies with brilliant word games. A must read!
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Hamlet by William Shakespeare ISBN: 074347712X Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 : Aracadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood by Tom Stoppard ISBN: 0571197515 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller ISBN: 0140714545 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Hamlet (Shakespeare Made Easy: Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full Original Text) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0812036387 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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