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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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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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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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A collection of Tom Stoppard plays.
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…
Hermione Lee
This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words
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…
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…
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…
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…
Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard - also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.
Tom Stoppard’s magnificent trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now Stoppard’s crowning achievement (David Cote, Time Out New York) has been…
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, the seminal Tom Stoppard play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.
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…
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…
"One of the great political plays in the English language."--Sunday Times (UK)It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a…
Mr Stoppard’s BBC television debut was sheer delight.‘ - Richard Last, Daily Telegraph 'Plays which enhance civilization itself, which is what this does, are not seen once and laid away.’…
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…
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 sly, gentle dig at society’s conventions and preconceptions. John Brown arrives at a country nursing home with a case of money expecting hotel-style service. He’s a kind of dropout…
A trilogy of Stoppard’s successful plays: Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage; all of which premiered at London’s Royal National Theatre in August 2002.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TOM STOPPARD
Our most esteemed living playwright adapts the most famous love story ever written in the screenplay for the new Focus Features film Anna Karenina…
One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes…
Crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, two playwrights struggle to complete their play, which is destined for Broadway, while the cast rehearses it.
Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and…
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…
Rock ‘n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the…
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…
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…
"It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through…
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…
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…
Originally published as the Television Plays 1965-1984 , this collection of Tom Stoppard drama texts includes A Separate Peace , Teeth , Another Moon Called Earth , Neutral Ground…
Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and amarriage bed, and the endurance of love.
Harris his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable - which is strange notes the wife for she had…
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