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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Paperback – 4 March 1991

by Tom Stoppard (Author)
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Through a stony and inhospitable landscape ride a pair of attendant lords, cloaked and hatted against the cold. In this screenplay Stoppard recreates, in cinematic terms, his play about two minor characters from "Hamlet", Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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  1. Print length
    80 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Faber & Faber
  4. Publication date
    4 March 1991
  5. Dimensions
    13 x 0.5 x 20 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0571162428
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571162420
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About the Author

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, Rock 'n' Roll, The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt.
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 and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon).
Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End.
Film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 4 March 1991
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Main
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571162428
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571162420
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 98 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 0.5 x 20 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 148 ratings

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Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves a Favor, Arcadia, Jumpers, The Real Thing, and The Invention of Love.

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  • Paul K. Winter
    5.0 out of 5 stars A truly brilliant play to see and read
    Reviewed in Canada on 2 April 2013
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    We were very fortunate to have caught a performance of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at the Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto. It was brilliantly staged, with superb acting.
    As a rule, I like to read a play before seeing it on the stage. Alas, we didn’t have time to find a hardcopy and so Amazon’s e-book version came to the rescue. I had Rosencrantz & Guildenstern on my Kindle in seconds and could lose myself in the play. I was pleasantly surprised how well suited a play is for the e-book format.
    After we saw the play, I went back to re-read parts on the Kindle and enjoy the inimitable wit and absurd dialogue so reminiscent of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It helps, of course, to be somewhat familiar with Hamlet and see the unfolding tragedy through the eyes of Shakespeare’s innocent marginal characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Picture the stage: almost everyone is dead when the English Ambassador announces
    The sight is dismal;
    and our affairs from England come too late.
    The ears are senseless that should give us hearing
    to tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
    that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
    Where should we have our thanks?
    The dialogue in this play is witty and can be read on several levels. The Kindle is perfect for re-reading and sharing Stoppard’s play over-‘n-over again in coffee shops, airplanes, or wherever.
    Paul
    P. K. Winter
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  • Dan Lewis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Guildenstern and Rosencrantz Are Alive
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2014
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    This play never gets old. Does any play? They're like flies encased in amber, filled with the blood of dinosaurs. Every performance stirs ancient powers. You never know what they'll bring back to life, or back to death.

    Here the extras are the heroes, just for one day. Hamlet gets a few walk-ons, but to be or not to be is never a question. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the perhaps unwilling, perhaps complicit participants in their inevitable, inexplicable existence, and they take center stage in this very meta play about plays about life, death, you, me, choice, chance, and fate.

    Do they seize their chance or waste it? Could it have been any different? Are they, in the end, extra mortal or alive forever? Is the title, in the end, the first and last joke?

    I can't give enough praise to the hilarity, the profundity, the stupidity, the cupidity, the reality of this marvelous play-thing. I don't think you really need to have Hamlet before it. And you won't have quite the same Hamlet after it.
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  • marzia
    2.0 out of 5 stars Dfficilissimo per ragazzi del liceo
    Reviewed in Italy on 11 September 2013
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    La professoressa ha chiesto alla classe di leggere questo testo durante l'estate ed essendo impossibile trovare una versione specifica madrelingua per studenti, ho optato per questo ma mio figlio e' riuscito ad arrivare, con difficolta', solo circa a meta' poiche' il testo, in inglese antico e versione teatrale, gli risultava di difficile comprensione nonostante lui sappia l'inglese molto bene per la sua eta'! Sconsigliato quindi per studenti del liceo....forse per universitari o per addetti ai lavori....! Speriamo la prof sia comprensiva.....
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  • Alfredo Hamill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Still fresh and original after all these years
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2012
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    I saw the original play when it first came out in 1968, and I can say that it is still as fresh and original today as it was then. The screenplay differs somewhat from the theatrical version, and I got it because I am using the film in an EFL course I teach and need the text as backup. The film itself is well worth it, especially if you haven't seen it on stage.
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  • Ven "Gethenian" H.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Very Much Alive, Actually
    Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2002
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    From the uncomparable genius of Tom Stoppard comes a quotable masterpiece about two friends lost in someone else's story. While the rest of Shakespeare's characters remain true to their original script, Ros and Guil step out of the box to explore a variety of topics ranging from the metaphysical to the downright comical. As the title suggests, the story is, ultimately, a tradegy -- but as the reader gets to know the two stars, it becomes a tragedy on multiple levels. One feels that their deaths are preordained, and even the moments of sidesplitting hilarity are laced with the bittersweet knowledge that it WILL end. The story is made still more touching as the characters' early realization of their fate battles with their unquenchable hope. Stoppard has captured in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a sense of innocence that endures despite the chaos around them in a world where it seems even the laws of physics have suddenly ceased to apply. A perfect mixture of comedy and tragedy with a philosophical overtone attainable only by Stoppard, this is a play you will want to read, re-read, and act out with your friends in daily conversations.
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