Stoppard, Tom (Vol. 3) - Stoppard, Tom 1937–
Stoppard, Tom 1937–
Stoppard is a Czech playwright and novelist, now living in England, whose work, especially the popular play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is generally regarded as brilliant, funny, and imaginative.
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is obviously giving considerable pleasure to large numbers of people, so I advance my own reservations feeling like a spoilsport and a churl: the play strikes me as a noble conception which has not been endowed with any real weight or texture. The author is clearly an intelligent man with a good instinct for the stage, and his premise is one that should suggest an endless series of possibilities. But he manipulates this premise instead of exploring it, and what results is merely an immensely shrewd exercise enlivened more by cunning than by conviction.
As is now generally known, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a theatrical parasite,...
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