Recognized still today as a consistently clever and daring comic playwright, Stoppard startled and captivated audiences for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead when he retold the story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as an absurdist-like farce, focusing on the point of view of two of the famous play’s most insignificant characters. Subsequent professional productions in London and New York in 1967 made Stoppard an international sensation and three decades and a number of major plays later Stoppard is now considered one of the most important playwrights in the latter half of the twentieth century. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s best-known and first major play, appeared initially as an amateur production in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August of 1966.
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