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.

:: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
:: Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)
:: Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
:: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics)
:: Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)

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