Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead

Tom Stoppard Fay Kanin Michael Kanin Bernhard Reitz First published 1967

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • denmark
  • denmark -- politics and government -- 1448-1660 -- drama
  • drama
  • drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • english drama
  • existentialism
  • existentialism -- drama
  • hamlet (legendary character)
  • hamlet (legendary character) -- drama
  • ḥan ha-yerushalmi (theater)
  • motion picture plays
  • politics and government
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (motion picture)
  • specimens
  • theater programs