Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Paperback, 128 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1967 by Grove Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8021-3275-8
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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

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Subjects

  • Drama texts, plays
  • Plays / Drama
  • Plays
  • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Drama / British & Irish