Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
_as an outsider of the story
9754007 Ivy Lee 2009/11/11
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Introduction• About the writer _Tom Stoppard
• born on July 3, 1937. • His family moved to Singapore
in 1939 to escape the Nazis.
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• Hapgood
• If You're Glad I'll Be Frank
• Indian Ink
• The Invention of Love
• Night and Day
• The Real Inspector Hound
• The Real Inspector Hound
and Other Plays
Some of his play :•The Real Thing
•Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead
•Rough Crossing
•Rough Crossing & On the
Razzle
•Separate Peace
•Shakespeare in Love: A
Screenplay
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About this play
• first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966• two main characters : _minor characters from Hamlet _schoolmates and childhood friends of Hamlet• Story :• Focusing on their actions with the events of
Hamlet as background.• important events are going on around them but
who die without ever understanding them.
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The introduction in a website• Although the two people in the play are not much
useful, the Prince quickly suspected them to be a spy. Then the King gave a secret order to murder Hamlet,
who was away in the United Kingdom that time and hide his name.
Then, the two characters died inexplicably behind the scene.
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Face book !I could watch this every day and always find something new to love!
Now every time I see a version of Hamlet, my heart leaps up a little when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear.
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Quick reflection
• like two clowns
• living their life of no purpose
and no incomprehension of
their situation.
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As an outsider of the story?
Used to be an insider
• usually being an insider when we see a movie or play
• Almost every detail can be found on the screen
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When we go outside
• have no understanding about what really happened even until they die!
• unclear and inexplicable
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Brief reflection
• interesting view
• Not to be the main character.
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Reference material :
• http://zh-hk.facebook.com/pages/Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern-Are-
Dead/33989335282?v=wall
(the face book page of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead
(wiki pedia )
• C.R.Reaske(1977). How to Analyze Drama. 林國源譯 <<戲劇的分析>>。書林書店
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet. 朱生豪譯 <<哈姆雷特>>
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Thank you for listening