Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1967 • Grove Press

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Play by Tom Stoppard 

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1967] GROVE PRESS

Second Printing / 1967.

Vintage trade paperback in very good reading condition.

Cover shows visible shelf wear / a few spots of discoloration.

Pages are clean and unmarked with just a name written neatly in cursive on front endpaper.  Reads good as new with some mild staining to top of text block that does not appear on interior pages (see photos)

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.