premiered in 1968 at the Criterion Theatre in London. This one-act play (typically less than eighty minutes in performance) was the first Stoppard play to have a London preview, a process that Stoppard claims to have appreciated (Delany 181). In 1972,
The Real Inspector Houndpremiered in America. Stoppard directed a London revival of the play at the National Theatre in 1985, and the play had a Broadway revival in 1992, before a second major London revival in 1998.
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The Real Inspector Hound is often cited as one of the prime examples of the Theatre of the Absurd. In it, two critics (the second-string critic Moon, and the lustful, womanizing Birdboot) arrive at the theatre, assigned to write reviews of the production they have come to see. These
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Citation: Knight, Shawn. "The Real Inspector Hound". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 August 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7530, accessed 25 November 2024.]
