Издания и произведения

Сер Том Стоппард (нар. 1937 у містечку Злін у Чехословаччині) – британський драматург, режисер, кіносценарист і критик. Здобувши середню освіту, почав працювати журналістом, що і привело його в театр, адже через якийсь час вже мав свою колонку і писав театральні рецензії (вищої освіти так і не здобув). Переклав на англійську п’єси Славоміра Мрожека, Вацлава Гавела (з яким потім приятелював) та ін. Саме його п’єси вважають «театром ідей», саме він, за його ж словами, завжди «принаймні однією ногою в минулому», саме його як нікого стосується джойсівське «любиш мене – люби й мою парасолю», адже щоб любити кожну окремо п’єсу сера Стоппарда,…

"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 Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic.

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. 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. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and 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.