R & G R _____ - Day 2 -

Why didn't they call the book, "Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are Dead," or for that matter, it would be just as sufficient to call it "Guildenstern is Dead Twice!" Maybe it shouldn't have a title at all.

The banter in this play is funny (it's a good thing since it is a comedy, and banter is all there is). I take it that Guildenstern is in fact not gay because of his reaction to the player's advances on page 26: "GUIL smashes the PLAYER across the face." The gay jokes to provide laughs though. I noticed some Postmodern aspects. Specifically...
the player (28) - "We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else" - (multiple/alternate realities, transcience)
the player and guildenstern (33) - "G: aren't you going to change into your costume? P: I never change out of it, sir" - he never changes out of his costume because he is always a player, shakespeare never writes him differently; metafiction
guildenstern (40) - "it's all done for you" - more metafiction
(41) - "Words, words. They're all we have to go on" - not only does this quote Hamlet, it also expresses the postmodern technoculture. Words are our identity. However, an interesting side note is that because under postmodernism, words don't mean anything anyway, identity really isn't meaningful at all.

My favorite quote so far is on page 47 (from Guildenstern the Deep) - R: Who am I then? G: "You're yourself." hmmm... yes Guildy... you are a smart one.