Rosencrantz And Guildenstern - Tumblr Posts - Page 2
Hamlet can be very irritating
Guildenstern: God, Hamlet is driving me insane.
Rosencrantz: He can be quite annoying when he wants to be. Don’t you think Horatio?
Horatio: *studying, distracted* No, no, I love prince Hamlet.
Guildenstern: Well now!
Rosencrantz: I don’t believe we’ve ever heard that before.
Horatio: I mean… I’m sorry, what did you ask me again?
Rosencrantz: If you find Hamlet irritating.
Horatio: No, of course I don’t! I- I enjoy being… around him. Academically, you know, he is always… stimulating.
Rosencrantz:
Guildenstern:
Horatio: Not in the erotic sense of the word!
Interesting is that dramatist W.S. Gilbert who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" (1874) and shipped Rosencrantz and Ophelia died while attempting to rescue a young woman from drowning.
Rosencrantz and Ophelia in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” (2009). The fragment is based on the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” by W.S. Gilbert.
There was a production where Guildenstern was deaf and that just made the recorder scene worse because Hamlet is essentially rubbing in Guil’s disability :( and Rosencrantz looked about ready to cry because he was the one translating for Guil
OH MY GODDDDD NOTMAL NORMAL NORMAL
I’ve actually always headcanoned Ros as HOH. I thought it was cool, giving a disability to a character that clearly is able to overcome it (given that he doesn’t shut up<3)
I think in a similar way, the sponge scene that I mentioned in my previous post gets Guil riled up because of Hamlet’s line “I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.” He’s essentially calling Ros stupid, yeah? I think it could easily be interpreted that Ros is autistic and is unable to fully understand social cues, sarcasm, and insults. He claims to ‘understand [Hamlet] not’ before the foolish ear line, which is on par if he is, in fact, autistic.
So, essentially, I interpret it as Hamlet— well knowing Ros has issues understanding social cues— calling him stupid for something he can’t help. With that information, it makes total sense that Guil takes personal offense to it and explodes.
Shut up Jenny
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Because despite everything they do, I can't help but love these two sycophantic morons!
It's been a long time since I posted and I'm sorry. Here's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to make it batter. In a new art style that I'm slowly trying to revitalize after a few years of nothing but anime characters. (I'm currently working on Hamlet himself. Hopefully I'll get that out sooner because I'm NOT going all out with backgrounds like I did here! But can you blame me here, my boys deserve something more than what they get in the play!)