Description

• Scarce First Printing [Faber & Faber, London, 1967]; 96pp; blue boards, gold titling to spine, faint offsetting to endpapers, pencil price on ffep, an excellent copy; in the very good, price-clipped dustjacket, spot marks at front top edge & rear near base, discolouration at extremities, minor chipping at top
• Stoppard’s first & best-known play
• First performed at the Edinburgh Festival [1966] before being staged by the National Theatre in London
• The play focuses on Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet [in which they die offstage]