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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Introduction For our final text of this semester (and the Liberal Studies program) we are considering the first major work of a writer who, in the thirty years since this play first appeared, has emerged as a leading playwright in England, one of the most popular and frequently produced writer there, (perhaps, with the exception of Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber, the high priest of McTheatre, the most popular). In selecting …

…to get a sense of its richness. But those riches do not, I think, have much to tell us about ourselves or the world we live in. In a work like this, as in so much modern art, we are not invited to view the world differently once we have experienced what the artist has to say. Does that make this inferior? I'm not going to answer that. After all, times being what they are. . .