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Tom Stoppard, while writing his Elizabethan tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, aimed to depict Hamlet through the eyes of two secondary characters of Shakespeare, who are not fully developed in the original work. He wonders who the king was on the throne of England when the two heroes arrived there to deliver the letter given to them by Claudius.
One could argue that if Hamlet did not exist, this play would not have been written; however, this is not true because the Shakespearean play is not the cause of the writing of this work, but merely a starting point for it. Stoppard, deliberately avoiding lengthy descriptions of his heroes, presents them as two likable yet completely confused characters, who are constantly struggling to understand the complex maneuvers and intricate machinations occurring around them, while they muddle through the plot of Hamlet that unfolds incomprehensibly to them.
By writing around and between the Shakespearean lines, Stoppard confronts the absurd head-on and simultaneously takes the initial steps to move beyond it. It would be more accurate to say that while he begins "beyond the absurd," having absorbed the bold, dramatic adventurous motion of the Theatre of the Absurd and turning it into his own unique advantage, he ultimately arrives at "Meta-absurd" theatre or "Sur-absurd" theatre.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Tom Stoppard
- Publisher
- Iridanos
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 200
- Release Date
- 01/09/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- Art Movement
- Modernism
- Art Albums
- Yes
- Subjects
- Movie, theater
- ISBN-13
- 9789603354796
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