Tom Stoppard : A Life,9780312237783

Tom Stoppard : A Life

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780312237783
ISBN10: 0312237782
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): St Martins Pr
List Price: $29.95

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Summary

Tom Stoppard has written some of the most challenging and fanciful plays of the 20th century. His work, from the early Jumpers to the film Shakespeare in Love to the current play The Invention of Love, has in effect changed the landscape of drama. Witty, erudite, passionate, abstract, clever (some would say too clever by half), his works are like no one else's. Who is Tom Stoppard -- the Czech-born son of Jews who became the singularly English man of letters? In this vibrant, critical portrait, Ira Nadel weaves life and works into a fascinating chronicle of Stoppard's world on English and American stages. Peopled with such characters as Diana Rigg, John Wood, and Billy Crudup, the book untangles Stoppard's genius against the backdrop of Broadway and London's West End.

Author Biography

Ira Nadel is a commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and teaches English at the Univerity of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Deserts of Bohemia
1(16)
Lavender Street
17(22)
Et in Arcadia Ego
39(34)
At the Paragon
73(27)
Swinging London
100(28)
Berlin Cowboy
128(21)
Rosencrantz on the Royal Mile
149(26)
The Old Vic and a New Playwright
175(30)
Swinging from an Epigram
205(31)
Artist Ascending a Staircase
236(23)
Marzipan Clocks
259(22)
Czech Mates
281(26)
Incurable Semantic
307(24)
Broadway to Brazil
331(23)
Eloquent Equations
354(35)
An English Eden
389(23)
The Classic Romantic: Shakespeare in Love
412(13)
Byron in a Laptop
425(28)
New York, Prague
453(18)
Multiple Fascination
471(29)
Camouflaged by Display
500(37)
Notes 537(52)
Bibliography 589(4)
Acknowledgements 593(6)
Index 599

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