Showing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Paperback. Pub Date :1973-01-01 Pages: 128 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which. as it were. takes place in the wings of Hamlet. and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppards reputation virtually overnight. Its wit. stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic.