Tom Stoppard's plays : : patterns of plenitude and parsimony / / by Nigel Purse.
In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard’s works on a thematic basis. He explains that, amongst the plenitude of chaotic comedy, wordplay and intellectual ping-pong of Stoppard’s plays, the principle of parsimony that is Occ...
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Superior document: | Costerus New Series, Volume 217 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017. ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 217. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (686 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Occam’s Razor
- The Stoppardian Stage Debate
- The Vehicle versus the Idea
- Ethics
- Dualism–Illusion and Reality
- Stoppard’s Theatricality
- Stoppard’s Time Shifts
- Coda
- Appendix 1: Hamlet vs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Appendix 2: Indian Ink – Timeline
- Appendix 3: The Coast of Utopia – Timeline
- Bibliography
- Works by Tom Stoppard
- Characters in Stoppard’s Works
- General Index.