Tom Stoppard's Arcadia |
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Author:
| Fleming, John |
ISBN: | 978-1-282-87641-5 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $108.00 |
Book Description:
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Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his early career love for words and ideas with his later career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement. With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of...
More DescriptionTom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his early career love for words and ideas with his later career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement.
With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled the realms of math and science. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students a much-needed overview of the play's background and context including Stoppard's source material as well as full discussion of the text and its performance history to date.