Sir Tom Stoppard obituary by Michael Coveney

One of Britain's most outstanding playwrights famed for the 'hypnotised brilliance' of his prose and dialogue After the first night of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the National Theatre in London in 1967, Tom Stoppard awoke, like Lord Byron, and found himself famous. This new star in the playwriting firmament was a restless, questing bundle of contradictions. Stoppard wrote great theatre because,…

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