Search for dissertations about: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

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  1. 1. Shakespearean parallels and affinities with the Theatre of the absurd in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

    Author : Anja Easterling; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Stoppard; Tom; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Hamlet; Beckett; Samuel; Waiting for Godot; Pinter; Harold; The Caretaker; The Theatre of the Absurd; absurd drama; cliché;

    Abstract : The study elucidates the relation of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Hamlet on the one hand and to the Theatre of the Absurd on the other. The two plays chosen to represent the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett1 s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter* s The Caretaker. READ MORE