R&G Reading Four
I think this is the most important reading we have seen thus far. Stoppard starts to use intertextuality a lot more which connects Hamlet and R&G more and more. Looking at these parallels between the stories is very cool because i think about how they were written hundreds of years apart. ” What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?” – Rosencrantz speaking to Hamlet. This is a big example of intertextuality in the book, based on a big issue in both plays.
I thought it was interesting how Stoppard wrote about the Ophelia/Hamlet talk. He makes it sound like it was R&G’s fault that Polonius died because they were scared and cowardly. This is an interesting twist between the plays. I got confused when R&G discuss their death. The player talk to them about it but im not quite sure why, or how. This was an important reading that really connected the two plays, which we knew would happen from the beginning.
