Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, By- G. Vaidyanathan, S. Geetha

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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, By- G. Vaidyanathan, S. Geetha ISBN: 978-93-89918-60-1

CONTENTS

Chapters

1. Biography of Tom Stoppard
2. A Study of Stoppard’s Theatre
3. Analysis of Stoppard’s Plays
4. Historical Context to Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

5. The Tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd
6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead : Background to the Play
7. Title of the Play: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Summary
9. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead : List of Characters
10. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Themes
11. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead : Act-wise Summary and Analysis
12. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead : Remaking Hamlet
13. Aesthetic Distancing in Tom Stoppard’s Drama
14. Stoppard’s Movement beyond the Theatre of the Absurd into a Postmodern Style in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
15. Tragicomedy and Tragic Burlesque : Waiting for Godot and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

16. Freedom and Morality in the Plays of Tom Stoppard
17. Tom Stoppard : A Critic of the Modern Age
18. Tom Stoppard : Serious Artist or Siren
19. Unlikely Bedfellows: Politics and Aesthetics in Tom Stoppard’s Recent Work
20. Stoppard’s Theatre of Unknowing or Stoppard’s Plays are Post-Absurdist
21. Interviews with Tom Stoppard
22. Characters in Search of a Purpose : Meaning in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
23. A Critical Evaluation of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
24. Humour and Fate in Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
25. An Analysis of Narrative Identity in Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
26. A Postmodernist Reading of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
27. Themes of Uncertainty and Confusion in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead make his play Appealing to the Twentieth Century audience
28. The Metatheatre : A Study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
29. Questions and Answers
30. Explanation of Important Passages
31. Tom Stoppard : A Chronology
32. Further Reading