•1960—began writing plays, novels, and radio plays
•1967—gained fame with Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are
Dead
After completing
his education, Stoppard worked as a journalist, writing about films and
theater.In 1960 he turned to drama
himself, writing stage plays and radio dramas (two of which were produced for
BBC radio) and then gained fame with his 1967 play Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead, a comic/existentialist reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
