Parody And Restructure:Stoppard’s Postmodern Rewriting Of Hamlet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is Hamlet’s postmodern rewriting work written by Tom Stoppard,a Contemporary British dramatist.In perspective of Shakespeare’s two secondary characters,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,Stoppard rewrites this classic drama.Based on the text reading,this paper will analyze specifically how Stoppard rewrites the play of Shakespeare,and explore the meaning behind rewriting and the enlightenments.This paper consists of three parts:preface,body and summary.The main contents are as follows:The first part is the preface.Firstly,this part introduces Stoppard and the detail plot of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.Secondly,it summarizes the research results about the drama at home and abroad.Finally,it points out the structure of this paper.The second part is the main body,which consists of the following three chapters:The first chapter mainly analyzes what changes Stoppard has made to Hamlet,and focuses on the three aspects of the plot,characters and dramatic language.With adding and deleting the original episode,remodeling and subverting characters,collaging and creating novelty language,Stoppard makes Hamlet his own style of drama,and endows it with a new era of theme.The second chapter mainly discusses the theme of the rewriting Hamlet.Compared to Hamlet,the implication of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead focuses on expressing the loss of subjectivity and uncertainly of life.And this work reflects the writer’s art viewpoint of drama.The third chapter mainly discusses the significance and enlightenments of Stoppard’s rewrite.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a parody of a classic work.As the intertextuality has a dual function of deconstruction and construction,Stoppard is close to the classic work deliberately,and establishes the classical status of his dramatic work,which introduces readers to a world of heteroglossia dramatic art,and show the different style of post modernism drama.The third part is the conclusion.This part summaries the main contents of this article.At last,looking forward to the future of Stoppard’s drama works.