Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Essay

Tom Stoppard’s, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, emphasizes the close connection between real life and theatrical performance. This connection between life and the stage is revealed by the presence of the Tragedians. The Tragedians perform a play that depicts parallel events to those in which the two main characters find themselves; which ultimately ends with them being killed. The Player, leader of the Tragedians, claims that theatrical death is the only kind of death that people believe in because it is what they expect. According to the logic of the play and the Player, the audience cannot believe in their deaths either because the audience’s expectation that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will die is never fulfilled
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