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Tom Stoppard

Hermione Lee
Tom Stoppard Book PDF

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493231

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Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee Pdf

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

Katherine E. Kelly
The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard Book PDF

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521645921

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The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz Guildenstern are Dead Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057361492X

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1967.

The Theatre of Tom Stoppard

Anthony Jenkins
The Theatre of Tom Stoppard Book PDF

Author : Anthony Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521379741

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The Theatre of Tom Stoppard by Anthony Jenkins Pdf

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.

Tom Stoppard

Daniel Keith Jernigan
Tom Stoppard Book PDF

Author : Daniel Keith Jernigan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786465323

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Tom Stoppard by Daniel Keith Jernigan Pdf

Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

The Hard Problem

Tom Stoppard
The Hard Problem Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571322947

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The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard Pdf

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.

Double Act

Ira Bruce Nadel
Double Act Book PDF

Author : Ira Bruce Nadel
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060360149

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Double Act by Ira Bruce Nadel Pdf

Tom Stoppard is one of the foremost writers of his generation; a giant of the English stage whose intellectual puzzles are box-office magic and whose personality is as notoriously intriguing as his works. Ira Nadel recounts this eventful life, from Stoppard's childhood - escaping the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic to settle in Britain - to his breakthrough as a writer, his first theatrical success as the youngest playwright ever at the National Theatre, and his subsequent rise to the West End and international eminence. This portrait explores Stoppard's past and present friendships and partnerships - with Kenneth Tynan, Peter O'Toole, Trevor Nunn and Felicity Kendal among many others - and also the human rights work of his more recent years. It shows how Stoppard's life imitates his art and vice versa: the multiple identities of the plays reflecting his multi-layered past, and teh apparent contradictions of his life giving rise to dramatic works that elegantly and insistently exploe the shifting nature of reality.

Jumpers

Tom Stoppard
Jumpers Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802160816

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Jumpers by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Murder, marriage and metaphysics--the three elements that link the bizarre series of events in Tom Stoppard's high-spirited comedy, Jumpers. The protagonists include George Moore, an aging professor of moral philosophy whose quest to compose a lecture on 'Man--Good, Bad or Indifferent' is put on hold while he ponders the existence of his sock; his youthful wife Dotty, a former musical star on a downward spiral whose charm may explain the corpse in the next room; George's specially trained hare, Thumper; and a chorus of poorly-trained gymnasts whose exploits set the stage for this topsy-turvy world.

After Magritte

Tom Stoppard
After Magritte Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573620024

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After Magritte by Tom Stoppard Pdf

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 ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a parked car, a bunch of .22 caliber shells in the waste basket, and a robbery of the box office of a minstrel show. But Harris has an explanation: he had parked near an art gallery to let his mother see some paintings by Magritte in which her obsessional instrument, the tuba, figured grandly. But then it develops that there was no minstrel show at all, and the plot goes haywire. Performed in New York with The Real Inspector Hound.

Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard in Conversation Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472065610

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Tom Stoppard in Conversation by Tom Stoppard Pdf

British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
Arcadia Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571300587

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Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Pdf

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'.

The Invention of Love

Tom Stoppard
The Invention of Love Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802191700

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The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard Pdf

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?

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul

Tom Stoppard
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Professional Foul Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571300730

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs his father to free himself with a lie, Tom Stoppard's darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty. 'Plays which enhance civilization itself, which is what this does, are not seen once and laid away.' Bernard Levin, Sunday Times Every Good Boy premiered at the Festival Hall, London, in July 1977. It was revived at the National Theatre, London, in January 2009. Professional Foul 'Professor Anderson, a somewhat devious academic, went to Prague to deliver a lecture on "Ethical Facts in Ethical Fiction" and to see a football match. Politics intruded when a former pupil of Anderson begged him to smuggle out a thesis arguing that "the ethics of the State can only be the ethics of the individual writ large." . . . Mr Stoppard's BBC television debut was sheer delight.' Richard Last, Daily Telegraph

Tom Stoppard: Plays 5

Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard Plays 5 Book PDF

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571197514

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Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 by Tom Stoppard Pdf

This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classics by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.

Tom Stoppard’s Plays

Nigel Purse
Tom Stoppard s Plays Book PDF

Author : Nigel Purse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004319653

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Tom Stoppard’s Plays by Nigel Purse Pdf

In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse offers a unique appraisal, on a thematic basis, of all Stoppard’s plays by identifying key patterns and uncovering at the heart of Stoppard’s theatrical plenitude the principle of parsimony.