Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth

[no significant wear to book, previous owner's embossed ownership stamp on ffep, half-title page, and title page (enough already!), small bookseller's label (French's Theatre Bookshop, London) on rear pastedown; jacket shows light surface wear, one small tear at top of front panel, and again with the embossed ownership (on the front panel--who does that)]. Two plays by Stoppard, designed to be performed together; one of the conceits of the first play, which was inspired by a scenario proposed by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is that the characters speak an invented language called Dogg, which consists of ordinary English words assigned completely different meanings than those commonly understood. (A helpful note at the beginning of the text informs us that "translations from 'Dogg' language into English is given in square backets where this seems necessary.") From the jacket blurb: "Specially written for the Inter-Action company, this entertainment combined to unique advantage the 'serious' and 'frivolous' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent, his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, and the combined sense of what is absurd and what is intolerable that makes for effective satire. After a prelude of characteristic verbal and literary high-jinks, the core of the play is a performance of 'Macbeth' taking place in a private home because (as happened to the Czech Pavel Kohout) [to whom the play is dedicated] the actors have been forbidden in public. A not-so-secret policeman interrupts the show." (Per the copyright page, the play was "first published in 1979 by Inter-Action Imprint.")

Product Info

Publisher: Fabe and Faber

Year: 1980

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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