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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2012
      22 November 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139135108
      9781107021952
      9781107606128
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135108
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 177 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 177 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British Theatre, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, English Literature after 1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British Theatre, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, English Literature after 1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Book description

    Tom Stoppard is widely considered to be one of the most important dramatists of contemporary theatre. In this Introduction, William Demastes provides an accessible overview of Stoppard's life and work, exploring all the complexity and variety that makes his drama so unique. Illustrated with images from a diverse range of Stoppard productions, the book provides clear evaluations of his major works, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties, Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia, to provide the most up-to-date assessment available. Detailed chapters situate each play in the context of its sources, which include Shakespeare and contemporary existential thought, espionage, quantum physics, chaos theory, romanticism, landscape design, nineteenth-century European intellectual thought and European totalitarianism. The book also includes a section on Stoppard's Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love.

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    Contents
    • Introduction: Stoppardianism
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    References
    Guide to further reading
    Interviews
    Delaney, Paul (ed.). Tom Stoppard in Conversation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
    Gussow, Mel. Conversations with Stoppard. New York: Grove Press, 1995.
    Selected full studies of Stoppard and his works
    Bigsby, C. W. E.Tom Stoppard. London: Longman, 1976.
    Billington, Michael.Stoppard The Playwright. London: Methuen, 1987.
    Cahn, Victor L.Beyond Absurdity: The Plays of Tom Stoppard. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979.
    Corballis, Richard.Stoppard: The Mystery and the Clockwork. New York: Methuen, 1984.
    Delaney, Paul.Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision of the Major Plays. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
    Fleming, John.Stoppard’s Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
    Hunter, Jim.About Stoppard: The Playwright and the Work. London: Faber & Faber, 2005.
    Hunter, Jim.Tom Stoppard’s Plays. New York: Grove Press, 1982.
    Jenkins, Anthony.The Theatre of Tom Stoppard. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
    Kelly, Katherine E.Tom Stoppard and the Craft of Comedy: Medium and Genre at Play. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
    Kelly, Katherine E. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    Nadel, Ira.Tom Stoppard: A Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
    Sammells, Neil.Tom Stoppard: The Artist as Critic. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

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