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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Tom Stoppard

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 1795 Users | 52 Reviews

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

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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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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 enjoyed "The Real Inspector Hound" even though it was quite strange. It kind of reminded me of "The Play that Goes Wrong." The other plays were...how shall I say this?...prohibitively British. They felt like inside jokes on inside jokes on inside jokes with a side of fish and chips.

A satirical treatment of "The Mousetrap" written as a script. Very amusing.Seeing "The Mousetrap" before reading this helped in understanding the references.

The Real Inspector Hound was great and by itself I'd give it a 5. The rest of the plays ranged from alright to bad.

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

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

These are (I'm pretty sure) by no means Tom Stoppard's most brilliant plays, but, you know, it's Tom Stoppard. And he is one very, very clever dude. His theatrical devices - like having the critic characters of "Inspector Hound" first sit in the audience being critical, and then enter into the play - well, that was quite delicious. And plus, he used the phrase "ubiquitous obliquity," which, if I can twist my tongue around it, may be my new favorite thing to say.