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Arcadia: A Play
Tom Stoppard
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Description for Arcadia: A Play
Paperback. This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
Tom Stoppard's masterpiece, with a beautiful new cover.
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.
Arcadia premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
'It is a laugh-filled tragedy about what happens if you take the intoxicants of poetry and science seriously. It is a play where Stoppard turns himself into a clown whose juggling balls are Romanticism, Classicism, and the meaning of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571169344
SKU
V9780571169344
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Ref
99-99
About Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll and Leopoldstadt. His screenplay credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love and Anna Karenina.
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