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Tom Stoppard
This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out…
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Professor Dame Hermione Lee
The key book for all time on Tom Stoppard: the biography of our greatest living playwright, by one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, a star in…
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A selection of critical commentary, from the casebook series, on three major plays in the early to middle period of Stoppard’s career as a dramatist, including his own comments on…
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A new and updated edition of 'Tom Stoppard's extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia' (Evening Standard)
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.
A collection of Tom Stoppard plays.
Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and amarriage bed, and the endurance of love.
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Christopher Bigsby
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination…
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Dr John Fleming
Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard’s masterpiece, a work that weds his early career…
With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts…
Hermione Lee
This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Anthony Jenkins
Addressed to the theatregoer as well as to students of contemporary theatre, this new edition includes a fresh chapter on Hapgood . The book examines the way Stoppard’s plays work…
Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the most important modern playwrights. More than thirty essays on topics ranging from science…
A collection of work by the author contains his radio plays, which complement (and sometimes prefigure) his work for the stage. It includes In the Native State , which became…
Daniel Keith Jernigan
While much of Tom Stoppard’s early work is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there–becoming late modernist in the 1970s and fully modernist in the 80s…
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N. Sammells
Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1 - Formalism: An Aesthetic of Engagement - Stoppard as Critic - The Novel as Hinged Mirror - A Theatre of Formalism - PART 2…
William Demastes (Louisiana State University)
This Introduction provides an accessible overview of the life and work of Tom Stoppard, widely considered to be one of the most important dramatists of contemporary theatre. In concise and…
This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard, including insights into the recent plays, Arcadia and Invention of Love, as well as his coauthored…
Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard - also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.
This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard’s work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country), Ferenc…
Tom Stoppard’s first novel, originally published in 1966, includes not only the eighteenth-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, but also a couple of cowboys with…
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are…
"Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit." --VarietyIt is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last--yet his memories are…
"Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language."--NewsweekCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright's career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a showcase for…
Tom Stoppard’s new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in…
Tom Stoppard’s stimulating, funny play Night and Day is set in a fictional African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. The nation is faced…
This tetralogy, widely regarded as one of the best novels in English, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World…
Tom Stoppard’s powerfully evocative exploration of filial and colonial ties, love and loss, and the passage of time
Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience…
Tom Stoppard’s singular adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s famous play, a bittersweet tragedy of lives and love gone wrong
Travesties was born out of Stoppard’s noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century’s most crucial revolutionaries – James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin – were…
In 1972 an elderly avant garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to…
A tie-in edition to the upcoming Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s extraordinary play about love and marriage–the work that has been called the most moving play ( The New York…
Albert has a degree in philosophy and with a job as bridge painter has a new perspective on life up high. Through CPSs and programmed efficiency, he replaces four painters…
Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the author continues his association with Hamlet by taking the most well-known and best-loved lines from Shakespeare’s play and condensing them…
Dirty Linen concerns the investigation of a Select Committee into the moral standards of the House of Commons - a somewhat unconventional investigation, rendered not less so by the presence…
The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper rich African nation. Dick Wagner of…
Frank recognizes the voice of the GPO speaking clock as that of his long-lost wife. Determined to get her back, he forces his way into the inner sanctum of the…
Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning play about marriage, infidelity, and the boundaries of fact and fiction
A Tom Stoppard play in which a young English poet visits India in 1930 and finds herself poised between two very different societies. Flora has her portrait painted by an…
Five iconic plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Ferenc Molnar, Johann Nestroy, and Vaclav Havel in celebrated adaptations by Tom Stoppard
Revised version of the author’s 1963 television play, A walk on the water.
Tom Stoppard’s thrilling comic espionage story of a female British spymaster, examining motherhood, quantum mechanics, and the dualities of personality and perception
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