Overview: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play by Tom Stoppard that dabbles into the genre of absurdism by retelling Shakespeare’s Hamletfrom the perspective of secondary characters. Ros and Guild, our not-so-main main characters, encounter and struggle with the ideas of death, friendship, and identity. All the while they weave in and out of the well-known tale of Hamlet.
My Web Essay project for my Writing and Digital Media class was an interrogation of the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. This essay allows me to delve into a story that will benefit me when creating a remix of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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