Md.

Takit Mallik (049)

Muhammad Ibrahim Ibne Towhid (048)

Treatment of Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern Are Dead as a
postmodern text
 Influence of
Derrida and
deconstruction of
the post world war
 Split identity and
ambiguity
•Setting is ill-defined
•“no man’s land”
Ros: Took the very word
out of my mouth
Guil: You’d be lost for
words.
 Postmodern
hollowness of life
and existence
Binary opposition and failure of science
 Fate didn’t change!!

Title : already dead

•Different game by Stoppard
•“Fate was written”
“We are tragedians , you see.
We follow directions_ there is
no choice involved. The bad
end unhappily, the good
unluckily. This is what
tragedy means” . (Stoppard,
P.80)
 “Stoppardian” became
a term describing
works using wit and
comedy while
addressing
philosophical concepts
like “Pintersque”
“Tossing of
the Coin”

Word Play- Pun

And
Badminton!!!
Tossing Shakespeare!!!
“Or is it Guildenstern
and Rosencrantz”

“Or is it Guildencrantz
andRosen stern”

The two men are mistaken for one another by Claudius

Inter-textuality
Eco Chamber of
other text
Parallel
Universe