Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Author(s): Tom Stoppard

Plays

Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened at the National Theatre. Fifty years later, the play's wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967 as the two ill-fated attendant lords from Shakespeare's Hamlet take centre stage, musing on the purpose of existence and its end. This new edition publishes to coincide with a fiftieth anniversary production at The Old Vic, London, and contains a new preface by the author.


Product Information

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.

Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink,The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?,Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State andDarkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.

General Fields

  • : 9780571333721
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Plays
  • : 0.132
  • : March 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 9mm
  • : December 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tom Stoppard
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 808