HONORS PS1500 - Physics in the Plays of Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Act 1 - Questions for Discussion

 Randomness <--- Free Will ---> Inevitability

 

Acting Assignments for R&G Are Dead

 

1. Act 1, pp. 11 - 15 (Two parts: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)

Starts with Ros: Heads.

Ends with Guil: I’m afraid it is.
 

2. Act 1, pp. 22 - 25 (Three parts: Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Player)

Starts with Ros: Tumblers, are you?

Ends with Player: Oh yes. We have no control. Tonight we play to the court. Or the night after. Or to the tavern. Or not.
 

3. Act 1, pp. 36 - 39 (Two parts: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)

Starts with Ros: I want to go home.

Ends with Guil: --- But not choice.


4. Act 1, pp. 46 - 51 (Two parts: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)

Starts with Ros: Who was that?

Ends with Guil: I can’t imagine! (Pause.) But all that is well known, common property.  Yet he sent for us. And we did come.

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