Addressed to the enthusiastic theatregoer as well as to students of contemporary theatre, this new edition includes a fresh chapter on Hapgood. Anthony Jenkins is an actor and director as well as a teacher of drama, and this refreshing perspective informs his writing. He is interested in how Stoppard's plays work in the theatre (and on radio and television), and describes the playwright's use of stage space and action, interior emotions, the pauses in the dialogue, as well as the dialogue itself. Recently, critics have pointed to the political emphasis of the later plays. To Jenkins, Stoppard's career is all of a piece and is best described chronologically. The whole dramatic output, with the exception of the adaptations and film-scripts, is examined in detail: three short stories and the novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon are considered as essential to an appreciation of Stoppard's theatrical imagination; comments on the radio and television plays interweave and support discussion of the major plays from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to The Real Thing and Hapgood.
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'This attractively written and always accessible study of the whole of Stoppard's oeuvre traces the playwright's work, showing how his strengths lie in his preoccupation with our essential humanity.' The Stage and TV Today
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As Tom Stoppard tells it, he was lazing in the water off Capri when suddenly he realized he was twenty-three, unpublished, unheard-of, and unlikely to be otherwise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lord Malquist, Dirty Linen, Old Carr, Dogg's Our Pet, George Moore, Separate Peace, Great War, Inspector Bones, Lady Malquist, After Magritte, Another Moon, Fleet Street, Inspector Hound, Lloyd George, Post Office, Trafalgar Square, West End, George Riley, House of Cards, Inspector Foot, Neutral Ground, Professor Anderson, Samuel Boot, South Street, The Mousetrap New!
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As Tom Stoppard tells it, he was lazing in the water off Capri when suddenly he realized he was twenty-three, unpublished, unheard-of, and unlikely to be otherwise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
professional foul, ninth earl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Malquist, Dirty Linen, Old Carr, Dogg's Our Pet, George Moore, Separate Peace, Great War, Inspector Bones, Lady Malquist, After Magritte, Another Moon, Fleet Street, Inspector Hound, Lloyd George, Post Office, Trafalgar Square, West End, George Riley, House of Cards, Inspector Foot, Neutral Ground, Professor Anderson, Samuel Boot, South Street, The Mousetrap New!
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- The Real Thing: A Play by Tom Stoppard on 13 pages
- Night and Day by Tom Stoppard on 9 pages
- Tom Stoppard (Contemporary Playwrights) by Ronald Hayman on 6 pages
- Squaring the Circle by Tom Stoppard on 5 pages
- Show People by Kenneth Tynan on 5 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Katherine E. Kelly on page 135, and page 169
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