Monday, June 7, 2010

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Confused?

Why not? That's probably exactly how Tom Stoppard, the playwright wants you to be.

Here is an excellent academic lecture on the play that might help:
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/introser/stoppard.htm

You can also visit SparkNotes for some ideas: 
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/rosencrantz/

Wikipedia's not bad on this one and other online sources can be searched out as well.

But don't worry about it.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are just as confused as  you are.