Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation | The New Yorker
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” his 1966 Shakespearian meta-theatrical puzzle, about tertiary characters grappling with their inexorable fate, mainstreamed conversations about probability and droll ennui (“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it”). It hit the theatre like a comet. Even in an alternate reality in which … Read more









