Episode 51: Hamlet - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

For our one-year anniversary, we indulge our theater-loving, literature nerd selves and dive into absurdism. Could Tom Stoppard’s renowned play actually be… fanfiction? Yes, obviously it is, but we discuss all the angles of that question before meandering through the text of the play in search of direction or meaning. It is an acceptable diversion on the road to our inevitable, incomprehensible deaths.

 

The story is not available for free under copyright law, but check your local library!

 

Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.

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