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The Theatre of Tom Stoppard

By - Jenkins, Anthony, 1936
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
ISBN 10 - 0521379741
ISBN 13 - 9780521379748
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - 18.05 English literature 1900-2000
Shelf No - 7
Call Number - 822.914 JEN
Physical Description - xii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
Book Information
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 and shaped by the formal conventions particular to the media of stage, radio, and television. This book studies the stage space of each play as well as the actor's pauses and inner emotions. As a lecturer on drama, Jenkins follows Stoppard's career chronologically so that the radio and television plays are woven in with, and support various claims concerning, the major stage works. Unlike similar critical analyses of Stoppard's theater, this volume discusses all the latest plays, including The Real Thing, The Dog It Was That Died, and Squaring the Circle.

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