Comparing Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

This film is the kind of thing that you didn’t know you needed until you have it, and then you want more of it. Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a work of genius. This is certainly an interesting idea; taking an old piece of literature, choosing some background characters, and making a narrative for them that does not disrupt the canon narrative. What is so genius about it is how brilliantly the playwright knows Shakespeare, and knows how to play as Shakespeare. The dialogue seems entirely Shakespearean, and the wit is a clever match. Stoppard loves allusions and metaphors, clear evidence of that is found within the first spoken lines. Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a fantastic addition to

For starters nobody even knows which is Rosencrantz and which is Guildenstern. Not the audience, not the supporting characters, not the director, not even themselves! There are many time throughout the film where one refers to himself as Rosencrantz and to the other as Guildenstern and then turns around as says it the other way. Or when R&G were called in to speak with the King and Queen and are called names that may or may not even belong to them at all! And my favorite scene: in the garden where (the one usually considered) Rosencrantz is playing with pots and (the one usually considered) Guildenstern decides he too, shall play the game of name. (The one usually considered) Guildenstern calls out to (the one usually considered) Rosencrantz and calls him both names (the one usually considered) R is irritated with the second name calling as to the first call of a name not being followed with any real question. But then (the one usually considered) Guildenstern asks (the one usually considered) Rosencrantz, with lots of frutrustation I might add, “do you not discriminate?” Which is to ask, does he (the one usually considered) Rosencrantz not make any difference between either name. Does anybody ever really even know they’re own name, does the name make the person, if you change your name will you become a different person, and at 6 tune in for more unanswerable