Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Cherokee County Schools

Matuz, Roger, editor, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 63, Gale, 1991.
A very thorough compendium of excerpts from the most important criticism on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead. An excellent place to start for an overview of interpretations of the play.
Perlette, John M., "Theatre at the Limit: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in Modem Drama, Vol. 28,
no. 4, December, 1985, 659-69.
An essential essay for understanding the complexities of Stoppard's thematic treatment of death.
Rusinko, Susan, Tom Stoppard, Twayne, 1986.
A very accessible introduction to Stoppard that includes a short chapter on Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are
Dead.
Sales, Roger, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Penguin, 1988.
A thorough, book-length analysis of the play that effectively summarizes and comments on the action of both
Stoppard's and Shakespeare's plays before setting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead into the context of
Stoppard's other work and Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
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