Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Stoppard, Tom

Published by Grove Press, New York, 1967

About this Item

First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kuhlman Associates. An exceptional example. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm s-eye 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. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [is] verbally dazzlingthe most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable." (Edith Oliver, The New Yorker).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition