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The Theatre of Tom Stoppard

Author : Anthony Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379748
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tom Stoppard written by Anthony Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 155584894X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.

A Separate Peace

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573625131
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book A Separate Peace written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tom Stoppard Plays 1

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571301185
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Tom Stoppard Plays 1 written by Tom Stoppard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece, with the comment: 'The role of the theatre is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory'. Leading off is The Real Inspector Hound, the ultimate country-house whodunnit; Dirty Linen moves a Whitehall farce to Parliament Square; Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth subverts Shakespeare; and After Magritte explains the inexplicable.

Stoppard's Theatre

Author : John Fleming
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292781970
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Stoppard's Theatre written by John Fleming and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Stoppard's work in nearly a decade. He takes an in-depth look at the three newest plays (Arcadia,Indian Ink, and The Invention of Love) and the recently revised versions of Travesties and Hapgood, as well as at four other major plays (Rosencrantz,Jumpers,Night and Day, and The Real Thing). Drawing on Stoppard's personal papers at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRHRC), Fleming also examines Stoppard's previously unknown play Galileo, as well as numerous unpublished scripts and variant texts of his published plays. Fleming also mines Stoppard's papers for a fuller, more detailed overview of the evolution of his plays. By considering Stoppard's personal views (from both his correspondence and interviews) and by examining his career from his earliest scripts and productions through his most recent, this book provides all that is essential for understanding and appreciating one of the most complex and distinctive playwrights of our time.

Tom Stoppard

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451493230
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by Hermione Lee and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Travesties

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195326
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Travesties written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.

Tom Stoppard: Plays 5

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0571197515
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 written by Tom Stoppard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classics by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.

The Theatre of Tom Stoppard. (1. Publ.)

Author : Anthony Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tom Stoppard. (1. Publ.) written by Anthony Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jumpers

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195385
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Jumpers written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Stoppers's play "Jumpers" is both a high-spirited comedy and a serious attempt to debate the existence of a moral absolute, of metaphysical reality, of God. Michael Billington in "The Guardian" described the play succinctly: "The new Radical Liberal Party has made the ex-Minister of Agriculture Archbishop of Cantebury, British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon, and spritely academics steal about London by night indulging in murderous gymnastics: this is the kind of manic, futuristic, topsy-turvy world in which Stoppard's dazzling new play is set. And if I add that the influences apparently include Wittgenstein, Magritte, the Goons, Robert Dhery, Joe Orton, and The Avengers, you will have some idea of the heady brew Stoppard has here concocted." The protagonist incude an aging Professor Of Moral Philosophy -- trying to compose a lecture on "Man -- Good, Bad or Indifferent" -- while ignoring a corpse in the next room; his beautiful young wife, an ex-musical comedy Queen, lasciviously entertaining his university boss down the hall; her husband's specially trained hare, Thumpers; and a chorus of gymnasts, Jumpers.

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645928
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard written by Katherine E. Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

The Hard Problem

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190502
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Hard Problem written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question. She and other researchers at the institute are grappling with what science calls the “hard problem”—if there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? What Hilary discovers puts her fundamentally at odds with her colleagues, who include her first mentor and one-time lover, Spike; her boss, Leo; and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Enter a Free Man

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573608636
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Enter a Free Man written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of the author's 1963 television play, A walk on the water.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : London ; Boston : Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571112265
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Every Good Boy Deserves Favour written by Tom Stoppard and published by London ; Boston : Faber. This book was released on 1978 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219527X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.

The Real Thing

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802188877
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Real Thing written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Thing is one of Tom Stoppard’s most enduring and highly acclaimed dramatic works, first performed in 1982 at The Strand Theatre in London, starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees. The Real Thing begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage is on the verge of collapse. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage written by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the nature—and the mystery—of love, creating a multi-toned play that challenges the mind while searching out the innermost secrets of the heart. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, The Real Thing is brilliant and heartfelt, an extraordinary theatrical exploration of marriage, fidelity, and the creative life.

The Real Inspector Hound

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780394173139
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.