MDDM: Chapter 48 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

[CyrusGeo at netscape.net]

jbor wrote:

"... Mason's and Dixon's parodic rhyming couplets at 473.15-18), is very much a deliberate play on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, both Shakespeare's original duo and as they are in Stoppard's travesty, and recalls Eliot's 'Prufrock' and Beckett's _Waiting for Godot_ as well."

Yes, it's true, I missed the rhyming couplets. It seems it's been a long time since I last read poetry in English, so it didn't catch my eye. But I do have my objections about a possible relation to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for they are not at all comical characters like Darby and Cope. Instead, they are essential to the tragedy and eventually become victims of their willing subordination to authority, taking part in a plot which turns against them without their knowledge.

Come to think of it, they don't seem to me like minor characters anymore.

Cyrus


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