Plots

Plots

Demonstrations
7:50 – 8:44 Iran/Iraq War 21:22 – 22:25; Bildungsroman 20:45 – 21:18
9:27 – 9:57
Fade-In; Fade-Out
Extreme Long Shot and it is at a low angle
Ominous Music

Sir Tom Stoppard
British playwright
Knighted
1937 –
just before the 2nd world war stopped
Born in Czechoslovakia (name: Tomás Straussler)
Emigrated to Britain in 1945 with his family
Plays are often absurdist, existentialist, tragic/comic
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tragicomedy
Performed in 1966 in a small Oxford theatre, caught on 1967 – major production

Novel
Play
Novel possibly more adaptable because of imagery and description
Play adaptable because of directions

Coin Toss / Laws of Probability
Guil – philosophical depth
Ros - more foolish, lives on the surface, depthless
Parallel universe
Fate chance, probability, determination
Demonstrations
7:50 – 8:44 Iran/Iraq War 21:22 – 22:25; Bildungsroman 20:45 – 21:18
9:27 – 9:57
Fade-In; Fade-Out
Extreme Long Shot and it is at a low angle
Ominous Music

Sir Tom Stoppard
British playwright
Knighted
1937 –
just before the 2nd world war stopped
Born in Czechoslovakia (name: Tomás Straussler)
Emigrated to Britain in 1945 with his family
Plays are often absurdist, existentialist, tragic/comic
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tragicomedy
Performed in 1966 in a small Oxford theatre, caught on 1967 – major production

Novel
Play
Novel possibly more adaptable because of imagery and description
Play adaptable because of directions

Coin Toss / Laws of Probability
Guil – philosophical depth
Ros - more foolish, lives on the surface, depthless
Parallel universe
Fate chance, probability, determination
Demonstrations
7:50 – 8:44 Iran/Iraq War 21:22 – 22:25; Bildungsroman 20:45 – 21:18
9:27 – 9:57
Fade-In; Fade-Out
Extreme Long Shot and it is at a low angle
Ominous Music

Sir Tom Stoppard
British playwright
Knighted
1937 –
just before the 2nd...

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