Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead...

I'm not sure if I entirely had the comprehension/attention span to really understand the depth of Tom Stoppard's "Rasencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" but my reading it definately increased my understanding of the play Hamlet.
In Hamlet, R&G are two secondary characters that don't have entirely too much to do with the plot. We know just enough about them to make them interesting enough to write about hundreds of years later.

Stoppard's use of his knowledge of Shakespeare was wonderful. Down to the writing style, the witty dialogue, and the occasional annoying characters.
But I think I'd have to read R&G again to really understand it.

I liked how it crossed over with such ease from Stoppard to Shakespeare. You'd hardly even notice where one scene ended and another began.

I think R&G would be much easier for me to understand if I saw a production of it. Just because things are a lot easier to comprehend when seen. If I had read Hamlet, not having seen it first, I probably wouldn't understand it in the slightest either.
Maybe seeing RosenGuild will will help me comprehend the complicated language a little more.*








*Now that I've seen it and read more about it, I understand this play much better.