Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

English

ISBN: 0802132758

EAN: 9780802132758

Category: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Release Date: 09/30/1987

Synopsis: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worms-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeares play. In Tom Stoppards 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. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the Notable Books of 1967 by the American Library Association.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.35 inches

Width: 5.38 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 4.02 oz

Pages: 128