The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

by Tom Stoppard

Overview

“Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language.”—Newsweek

Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, and 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802160805
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/05/2023
Series:	Tom Stoppard
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	590,421
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, Travesties, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade’s End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays:

“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.”—New York Post

“[After Magritte is] a surrealist comedy in detective form . . . The play shows that Stoppard is as amusing and clever as always.”—CBS

“When it comes to Dirty Linen, there are no national boundaries. It is a tidal basin of laughter.”—New York Times

“New-Found-Land takes over, as architecturally sound as the introduction of a Beethoven scherzo.”—Daily News

“The incorrigibly playful Stoppard has never been more serious than in this most playful of his works [Dogg’s 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.”—Newsweek

From the Publisher

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

Daily News

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

New York Times Book Review

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.

Newsweek

"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."

New York Post