Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard in 1990

Tom Stoppard is an English playwright, most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

His other plays include Arcadia, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, The Real Thing, The Invention of Love, Rock 'n Roll, Travesties, Jumpers, and Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth.

He also co-wrote Shakespeare in Love, Brazil and The Bourne Ultimatum, and is reported to have done uncredited dialogue rewrites on Revenge of the Sith and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Tom Stoppard is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd partially due to the general tone of his work and partially because Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is essentially one big Shout-Out to the genre's codifier, Waiting for Godot.


Works by Tom Stoppard with their own trope pages include:
Tom Stoppard provides examples of the following tropes: