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Postmodernism in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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dc.contributor.author Shahnaz, Sanjana
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-31T04:56:55Z
dc.date.available 2024-10-31T04:56:55Z
dc.date.issued 2007-08-17
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4451
dc.description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh en_US
dc.description.abstract Rasencrantz and Guiltlenstern are dead does not fo110w this track' It is true that Stoppard's play is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet but he completely rejects the classical theatrical ideas of the ending. The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ends in a very ambiguous way. Through this play Stoppard rejects the traditional way of ending; that is to say a complete ending. This play ends in a way that creates a 1ot of questions in the mind of the readers or audiences. We can say that this ending is not the final fuom Hamlet, butmost of it is written in colloquial prose(giving the effect of deflation)' This ptay is laden with rhetorical questions, repetition, witty repartee, biblical references and references to literatgre. By using colloquial language Stoppard makes his play cioser to the life of the common people and this can be an example of rejection Rosenerantz and Guildenstern's world everything is constituted for the time being, for the moment. They have no future and have no past, so for them the present is everything. Just like postmodern beings they only live for the present; nothing is permanent. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;ENG00025
dc.subject Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead en_US
dc.title Postmodernism in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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