TY - BOOK AU - Fleming,John TI - Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos T2 - Literary Modernism SN - 9780292798717 AV - PR6069.T6 Z648 2001eb U1 - 822/.914 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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Research Center (HRHRC), Fleming also examines Stoppard's previously unknown play Galileo, as well as numerous unpublished scripts and variant texts of his published plays.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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/725331 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292798717 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292798717/original ER -