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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, 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.

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      Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573013386, 978-0573013386
      ISBN10: 0573013381

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      Book Synopsis
      Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, 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.

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