Thomasina: Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance. Valentine: And everything is mixing the same way, all the time, irreversibly . . . Septimus: Oh, we have time, I think. Valentine: . . . til…

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The playwright’s new work has been seen as a departure from his intellectual stock-in-trade. But look deeper, and passion has always been present

Yes. For my last post in the #AUTHORityAugust series, I thought I’d get all meta on you, and let the medium be the message. It was actually the quotation by Elaine Gill, toward the very end,…

The playwright’s new work has been seen as a departure from his intellectual stock-in-trade. But look deeper, and passion has always been present

What does it mean to say that a romantic relationship is “the real thing”? Sir Tom Stoppard examined that age-old question in his most …

This year is the twentieth anniversary of Tom Stoppard’s amazing play “Arcadia,” which opened at London’s Royal National Theatre.

New York Times According to the British Literary Council Tom Stoppard “is always written about as if he were an intellectual acrobat and dazzling word- spinner delighted by ideas and deficient in emotion” (Tom Stoppard). So who is Tom Stoppard one might ask? Thomas Strausser, aka Tom Stoppard, was born in Zlin, Czechoslovaki in 1937…

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead alone.

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