Every good boy deserves favor: This play criticises the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness --From publisher's description. Professional foul: The play is set in Prague and follows the character of Professor Anderson, a Cambridge don, on…
Examines plot, characters, and critical interpretations of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantze and Guildenstern Are Dead," "Jumpers," "Travesties," "Arcadia," and "The Invention of Love."
Tom Stoppard is said to have transcended the influence of Samuel Beckett and found his true precursor in Oscar Wilde.
Presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the author and his best-known or most important plays.
"Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, by most accounts the leading British playwrights of our time, might seem to come from very different aesthetic, cultural and political worlds. But as Carey Perloff's fascinating new book reveals, the two have much in common. By examining these co…
"Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, by most accounts the leading British playwrights of our time, might seem to come from very different aesthetic, cultural and political worlds. But as Carey Perloff's fascinating new book reveals, the two have much in common. By examining these co…
"Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, by most accounts the leading British playwrights of our time, might seem to come from very different aesthetic, cultural and political worlds. But as Carey Perloff's fascinating new book reveals, the two have much in common. By examining these co…