Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Roger Sales

In this incisive commentary Dr Sales presents Stoppard as a supremely professional man of the theatre. His plays may be examples of 'postmodernism' and touch on deep issues, but they also possess a mischievous genius for parody and camp humour. Dr Sales provides a richly detailed analysis of Rosencrantz, showing it to be a very considerable work indeed.

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 1988

About the author

Roger Sales was a pioneer in the field of interdisciplinary studies that prospered in the new universities of the 1960s, not least at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, where he took his BA degree, and later returned to teach for 27 years. A scholar equally of English literature and of history, he delighted in bringing the two together in writing and teaching, and became UEA’s first professor of English studies.