British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of the 1998 film « Shakespeare In Love », has died at the age of 88, United Agents announced on Saturday. Stoppard, who first made his name with « Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead » – an absurdist tragicomedy about two minor characters from Shakespeare’s « Hamlet » – developed a distinctive style combining serious ideas with comedy.
