Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By Tom Stoppard
(Grove Press, Paperback, 9780802132758, 128pp.)
Publication Date: January 1994
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Google eBook, DVD-Video, Paperback, , Prebound
Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Description
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye 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.
Praise For Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead…
“This is a most remarkable play. Very funny. Very brilliant. Very chilling.” –The New York Times
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [is] verbally dazzling…the most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable.” –Edith Oliver, The New Yorker
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