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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard ; consulting editor: Henry Popkin.

Title
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard ; consulting editor: Henry Popkin.
Author
Stoppard, Tom
Publication
  • New York, NY : Grove Press, 2017.
  • ©1967

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Additional Authors
Popkin, Henry
Description
117 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it 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. Revised and reissued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the play's first performance, this definitive edition includes a new introduction and previously unpublished ancillary material. -- Publisher description
Alternative Title
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Subject
  • Hamlet (Legendary character) > Drama
  • Hamlet (Legendary character)
  • 1448-1660
  • Politics and government
  • Existentialism > Drama
  • Denmark > Politics and government > 1448-1660 > Drama
  • Denmark
Genre/Form
Drama
Note
  • Preface ©2017.
  • "With a new preface by the author"--title page.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Act one -- Act two -- Act three
ISBN
  • 9780802126214
  • 0802126219
OCLC
  • 951955954
  • SCSB-11503917
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library