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Despite their box-office success, Tom Stoppard's plays have sometimes aroused academic hostility, his critics accusing Stoppard of cold intellectualism or frivolous showmanship. The purpose of this study is to examine the special problem of Stoppard's use of humor and games in conveying serious ideas. As an actor and director, Anthony Jenkins is concerned not just with the literary merit of Stoppard's plays, but also with the way they are written...

Definitive study of the plays by Tom Stoppard based on interviews with Mr. Stoppard and a close reading of his plays.

"In his years as a drama critic for the New York Times, Mel Gussow has developed special insights into the work and lives of contemporary playwrights. For more than twenty years, he has been meeting Tom Stoppard to talk about his plays and the people and ideas that have helped to shape his career. This book begins with transcripts of nine conversations from the seventies and eighties which have never been published in Britain before and never published...

"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." "In this...