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Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Biographical information about the author:
Author: Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
Date of Publication: August 26, 1966
Genre: Tragic Comedy, Existentialism, Absurdist fiction
Historical information about the period of publication or setting of the novel:
Characteristics of the genre:
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.
Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.
Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature, most often employed in novels, plays, or poems, that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question certainties such as truth or value.
Plot Summary: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of
Major Works Data Sheet: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of plagiarism.
Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Biographical information about the author:
Author: Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
Date of Publication: August 26, 1966
Genre: Tragic Comedy, Existentialism, Absurdist fiction
Historical information about the period of publication or setting of the novel:
Characteristics of the genre:
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.
Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.
Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature, most often employed in novels, plays, or poems, that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question certainties such as truth or value.
Plot Summary: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of