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Original Title:	The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
ISBN:	0802135617 (ISBN13: 9780802135612)
Edition Language:	English

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 1795 Users | 52 Reviews

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Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is 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. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

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Title	:	The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
Author	:	Tom Stoppard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	May 8th 1998 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1974)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

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Tom Stoppard is extraordinarily erudite, and often very funny. I love his best known play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and was also a big fan of his one and only novel. This collection didn't hit me the same way, though.The first play, the Real Inspector Hound, was my favorite. As others have said, it is both a send-up of the mystery genre and a commentary on criticism, while also managing to be funny to boot.Unfortunately, I thought there was diminishing returns on the rest of the

I have found it as difficult to understand as I did twenty five years ago, but I like the development of the plot and how the characters move.

See my comment on author David Ives' All In the Timing: Fourteen Plays:This book came up in conversation, totally independently from my reading of Word Freak, from a discussion on ambiguity in language (and there from a discussion of the illustrated Strunk & White) which let to "Hamlet... in love... with the old man's daughter... the old man... thinks" in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead", which led to David Ives' "The Universal Language" and to the language in "Dogg's Hamlet" (in

Presented here is the kind of work one imagines a clever young Briton might write upon completing university and going down to London: playful, imaginative, zestful in its learnedness, and above alldid I say this already?playful. Come to think of it, much of Tom Stoppards work may seem like it was produced by someone who accumulated a good store of knowledge in his college years and continued to add to it while playing with it in his scripts. Its no surprise to find him concluding his brief

I am honestly not entirely sure what I thought of this? (NB: I only read The Real Inspector Hound, not any of the other plays.)On the one hand, it was a fun little one act play that took me around twenty minutes to read, and it made me laugh, and it made me go, what the hell? On the other hand, I'm 100% positive I missed things, and the cleverness of this play almost entirely went over my head. I actually read this for Cannonball Read's quarterly online book club, and here's all I could think of

This is actually the same book as Plays one, the first volume of the collected plays. It contains four, five or six plays, depending on how you divide them (New Found-Land is embedded in Dirty Linen, and Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth are so interconnected that they could hardly be performed separately.) All are comedies with (intentionally) absurd plots. The Real Inspector Hound, like Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, collapses the distinction between the play and the observer. After

Simply the funniest play I ever read. It would, however, be a bitch for a community theater company to stage with its period set including a wheel chair coming downstairs, a body periodically hidden by a couch and its bleachers for the watchers Moon and Birdboot for the play-wrapped-around-a-play. But it reads well and my copy is not the one listed here but one I have in a textbook.