rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead full play

It’s still a delightful shock, every few years, to be reminded how brilliant and engaging this play remains.” - Independent (UK) “After the first night of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the National Theatre in 1967, Tom Stoppard awoke and found himself famous. Stoppard is always praised for his intellectual ingenuity: far more important is how, even in his late 20s, he was obsessed with human transience.” -Michael Billington, Guardian “Like Beckett, Stoppard shows two figures struggling to find identity and purpose in a world that makes little sense. writing is pristine.” - Charlotte Observer

“Full of philosophizing, nuances and complexities. It attains a comic lyricism that’s as funny as it is piercing.” -Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times

A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville. Stoppard’s fertile wit keeps this three-act drama pulsing along. Stoppard’s philosophizing playfulness is clearly indebted to the music hall absurdism of Waiting for Godot. “Astonishing-a youthful prank bursting with theatrical mischief and literary flair.” - Washington Post Stoppard is asking to be considered as among the finest English-speaking writers of our stage, for this is a work of fascinating distinction.” -Clive Barnes, New York Times This is a most remarkable and thrilling play. It has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. 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. 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.

Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead full play