Tom Stoppard
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English
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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
...6) Voyage
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Coast of Utopia volume pt. 1
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
8) Travesties
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Series
Evergreen book volume E-661
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Satire on politics, literature and art. James Joyce, Lenin, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara come together in the memories of an obscure English diplomat (Henry Wilfred Carr) in Zürich. (Song and dance routines. Prologue, 2 acts, 5 men, 3 women, 2 interiors).
9) Salvage
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Series
Coast of Utopia volume pt. 3
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
12) Night and day
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Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
17) Rock 'n' roll
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1936 and A.E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene."
"On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder...
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