Stoppard's Theatre : : Finding Order amid Chaos / / John Fleming.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fleming, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Literary Modernism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 p.)

With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Stoppard's work in nearly a decade. He takes an in-depth look at the three newest plays (Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Invention of Love) and the recently revised versions of Travesties and Hapgood, as well as at four other major plays (Rosencrantz, Jumpers, Night and Day, and The Real Thing). Drawing on Stoppard's personal papers at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRHRC), Fleming also examines Stoppard's previously unknown play Galileo, as well as numerous unpublished scripts and variant texts of his published plays. Fleming also mines Stoppard's papers for a fuller, more detailed overview of the evolution of his plays. By considering Stoppard's personal views (from both his correspondence and interviews) and by examining his career from his earliest scripts and productions through his most recent, this book provides all that is essential for understanding and appreciating one of the most complex and distinctive playwrights of our time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Annotated Chronology of Stoppard’s Career -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Career before Rosencrantz and Guildenstern -- Chapter 2: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- Chapter 3: Galileo -- Chapter 4: Jumpers -- Chapter 5: Travesties -- Chapter 6: Examining Eastern Bloc Repression -- Chapter 7: Night and Day -- Chapter 8: The Real Thing -- Chapter 9: Hapgood -- Chapter 10: Arcadia -- Chapter 11: Indian Ink -- Chapter 12: The Invention of Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index