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Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead

The Player King summarizes the dilemma facing modern/post-modern artists.

“The audience knows what to expect and that is all they are prepared to believe,” demonstrates the box the artist is in. Stoppard is confronting the restrictions of art by placing the responsibility on the audience. The moment would be greater, the lesson larger, the art more deeply moving if the audience would budge more. The power of plays is described in “The Mouse Trap” within “Hamlet”. “The play IS the thing…”

that and in Dumb and Dumber..... " I thought the Rocky Mountains would be rockier than this..... Ya that John Denver...."