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The Real Inspector Hound: And Other Plays

by Tom Stoppard
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Overview

Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright's career The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire.

Synopsis

Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

Daily News

New-Found-Land takes over, as architecturally sound as the introduction of a Beethoven scherzo.

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Editorials

Daily News

New-Found-Land takes over, as architecturally sound as the introduction of a Beethoven scherzo.

New York Times Book Review

When it comes to Dirty Linen, there are no national boundaries. It is a tidal basin of laughter.

Newsweek

The incorrigibly playful Stoppard has never been more serious than in this most playful of his works [Doggs Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth]. Like George Orwell, Stoppard knows that language and liberty are intertwined: when language is perverted, corrupted or forcibly repressed, so is liberty.

New York Post

"The Real Inspector Hound is a comedy of satire of high and delightful quality, and great fun... The action is fast, continuous, and extremely funny."

Newsweek

"Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language."

Book Details

Published
May 1, 1998
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages
211
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780802135612

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