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...emotion during the players' performance, since he is (Miller thinks) too crafty to fall for a simple trick like that. This may be consistent with Miller's idea, but not with Shakespeare's, for it gives Hamlet no ground for believing that Claudius has done the murder. It makes Guildenstern's lines "The king ... is in his retirement marvelous distempered..." seem absurd, for we have just seen the king perfectly unmoved. Again, in the final scene, Miller creates a contradiction when he has Claudius invite Hamlet to kill him, and willingly accept the poison cup, because his sense of politics...
PROVINCETOWN, MASS. Playhouse. They were extras around Hamlet's Elsinore. When Tom Stoppard's spotlight shines on them in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, they are found to be heroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension, unsure whether they are involved in a comedy or a tragedy...
...Parke A. Sullivan, BAD's circulation manager, thinks about it and laughs, intimately. James T. Lewis, publisher, leans back in his chair. He has a beard. Graduated from Harvard Business School. Stephen Mindich, associate publisher, has dark, dark eyes which sparkle. He tells Sullivan how to pronounce Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern; he knows because he's Jewish...
...deals for students is its priority ticket service, insuring that students get the best seats available at the price they pay. Generally this is pretty straightforward -- BAD buys up a block of seats and distributes them to students as the orders come in--but when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead came from New York to the Schubert, BAD, negotiated a special deal with David Merrick's office. Along with running sales through the priority ticket service, Merrick had agreed to a discount price for students--the first time any legitimate theatre had done so. Students were to be charged...
...Well, we'll know better next time.") In this hint of optimism, there is perhaps hope for surviving in a world in which "we drift through time, clutching at straws." And, when Stoppard shows us part of Hamlet's final scene, the English Ambassador's pronouncement "that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" elicits the audience realization that death may be the only event it can count on in an insane universe...