British playwright Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88. The Oscar-winning writer behind the 1998 classic "Shakespeare in Love" died peacefully at his home in Dorset, England, his agents confirmed ...

Stoppard is best known for his breakthrough play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which reimagines Hamlet from the perspective of two minor characters. His body of work also includes classics ...

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Stoppard, who died Nov. 29, wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing, and the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love. Originally broadcast in 1991.

Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally. “A severe ...