Hamlet through the looking glass : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead


Autoria(s): Hateley, Erica
Data(s)

2012

Resumo

The film adaptation of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"'s constant reallocation of actor and audience roles (or subject and object positions) means that the film’s viewers are as deeply implicated in considering issues of identity, agency and determination as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are. Tellingly, one of The Player’s outbursts reveals the philosophical connections between observing and being observed in ways that are true of the theatre, but which also transcend it: ‘You don’t understand the humiliation of it. To be tricked out of the single assumption that makes our existence bearable; that somebody is watching.’ In this statement is one of the film’s main concerns; that is, the relationship between knowing the self, knowing others, and being known by others.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/54226/

Publicador

Australian Teachers of Media

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/54226/1/Hateley_-_RAGAD_-_2012.pdf

http://www.metromagazine.com.au/screen_ed/index.html

Hateley, Erica (2012) Hamlet through the looking glass : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Screen Education, 67, pp. 115-120.

Direitos

Copyright 2012 Australian Teachers of Media

Fonte

Children & Youth Research Centre; Faculty of Education; School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education

Palavras-Chave #190204 Film and Television #200503 British and Irish Literature #Shakespeare #Stoppard
Tipo

Journal Article