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Tom Stoppard
Author | : Hermione Lee |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780451493231 |
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A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. “An extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.” —Harper's Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love—remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard escaped the Nazis with his mother and spent his early years in Singapore and India before arriving in England at age eight. Skipping university, he embarked on a brilliant career, becoming close friends over the years with an astonishing array of writers, actors, directors, musicians, and political figures, from Peter O'Toole, Harold Pinter, and Stephen Spielberg to Mick Jagger and Václav Havel. Having long described himself as a "bounced Czech," Stoppard only learned late in life of his mother's Jewish family and of the relatives he lost to the Holocaust. Lee's absorbing biography seamlessly weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful, and always riveting portrait of a remarkable man.
The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard
Author | : Katherine E. Kelly |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001-09-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521645921 |
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Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.
Rosencrantz Guildenstern are Dead
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publsiher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 057361492X |
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Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1967.
The Theatre of Tom Stoppard
Author | : Anthony Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1989-04-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521379741 |
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Despite their box-office success, Tom Stoppard's plays have sometimes aroused academic hostility, his critics accusing Stoppard of cold intellectualism or frivolous showmanship. The purpose of this study is to examine the special problem of Stoppard's use of humor and games in conveying serious ideas. As an actor and director, Anthony Jenkins is concerned not just with the literary merit of Stoppard's plays, but also with the way they are written and shaped by the formal conventions particular to the media of stage, radio, and television. This book studies the stage space of each play as well as the actor's pauses and inner emotions. As a lecturer on drama, Jenkins follows Stoppard's career chronologically so that the radio and television plays are woven in with, and support various claims concerning, the major stage works. Unlike similar critical analyses of Stoppard's theater, this volume discusses all the latest plays, including The Real Thing, The Dog It Was That Died, and Squaring the Circle.
The Hard Problem
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780571322947 |
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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 troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one. The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard premieres at the National Theatre, London, in January 2015.
Arcadia
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780571300587 |
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In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction', as Hannah says, 'which Newton left out'.
Tom Stoppard in Conversation
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0472065610 |
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British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words
The Invention of Love
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publsiher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802191700 |
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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 Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?