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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, La Salle University
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, La Salle University
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Not new are the ideas of Tom Stoppard to center the action of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in the periphery of Shakespeare' s Hamlet and to set the two minor characters as protagonists. Theatre history records the 1891 London production of a now - long forgotten comedy by W.S. Gilbert, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, in which Hamlet is banished and Rosencrantz marries Ophelia at the end of the play. Stoppard does not distort the story or parody the text of Hamlet. He uses, however, the small fragments of Shakespeare's text and builds around the incidents of Rosencrantz's and Guildenstern's life …
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