A collection of Tom Stoppard plays which reflect a combination of the "frivolous" and the "serious" aspects of his talent.[...]
Plays Five:
"Arcadia"
"The Real Thing"
"Night & Day; "
"Indian Ink; "
"Hapgood "
This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English langua[...]
This second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, which complement (and sometimes prefigure) his work for the stage. The volume includes "In the Native State", which became the stage play "Indian Ink". Also in this volume are "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot", "'M' is for Moon[...]
Our most esteemed living playwright adapts the most famous love story ever written in the screenplay for the new Focus Features film "Anna Karenina," directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law.
Tolstoy's brilliant novel, tracing the tragic love affair between Count Vronsky and[...]
A play which takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords.[...]
This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time and the difference between the classical and [...]
Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1997, directed by Richard Eyre.[...]
Plays Three:
"A Separate Peace"
"Teeth"
"Another Moon Called Earth"
"Neutral Ground"
"Professional Foul"
"Squaring the Circle"
Introduced by the author, this third collection of plays written by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They sh[...]
For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England's most admired dramatists. And for this edition of "Faber Critical Guides," Jim Hunter examines four of Stoppard's finest works in the context of his entire oeuvre. Hunter writes, "Stoppard's plays present [...]
With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in "Hapgood "devised a play that "spins an end-of-the-cold-war tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light" (David [...]
Contains three plays, "Voyage", "Shipwreck" and "Salvage" which, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and abroad in the tumultuous years between 1833 and 1866.[...]
Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem' which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues.[...]
The classicism of Lady Croom's grounds are being turned into a romantic chaos. In a room overlooking the work, her daughter and tutor are disturbed by, among others, Lady Croom and Ezra Chater. In the same room, 180 years later, a group try unsuccessfully to unravel the events of 1809.[...]
Characters: 8 male, 4 female Unit set. This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a herm[...]
"This was the first time I felt as involved in film as in working in theatre. My immersion in "Parade's End" from the writing to the finishing touches took up the time I might have given to writing my own play but, perhaps to an unwarranted degree, I think of this "Parade's End" as mine, such was th[...]
Encompassing work from nearly twenty years of Stoppard's career, this new collection showcases the playwright's dazzling range and virtuosic talent. The Real Inspector Hound is the ultimate country-house whodunit; After Magritte attempts to explain the inexplicable; NewFound-Land chronicles an Ameri[...]
Mick Rock began his photography career by sneaking his camera into rock shows and taking pictures of the bands he liked. His career took off when he began taking pictures of a practically unknown David Bowie in 1972, and together they went on to document the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust in photos[...]
An accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom Stoppard's Arcadia - a play commonly studied at undergraduate level.[...]
An engaging overview of one of the most dynamically entertaining and intellectually challenging British playwrights of the past fifty years.[...]