<p><b>Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard''s witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.</b><br><br>Tom Stoppard''s reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</i>, opened at the National Theatre. <br><br>Fifty years later, the play''s wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967 as the two ill-fated attendant lords from Shakespeare''s <i>Hamlet</i> take centre stage, musing on the purpose of existence and its end. <br><br><b>This new edition was published to coincide with a 50th anniversary production at the Old Vic Theatre, London, and contains a new preface by the author.</b></p>