Combo farce and historical drama

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 1999)

Tom Stoppard outdoes himself. In Rosencranz and Guilderstein are Dead he shows Hamlet from the point of view of these minor players. In Shakespeare in Love he puts together a clever comedy and love story brilliantly set in Elizabethan England. The spirit of the period is captured brilliantly and it surrounds you with lust, wit, drama, excitement.