Stoppard, Tom (Vol. 5) - Stoppard, Tom 1937–
Stoppard, Tom 1937–
Stoppard, a Czech-born British playwright for stage, radio, television, and screen, and the author of one novel, has won both the Tony and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. The premise for much of his work is the Beckettian notion that man is a minor character in a drama he cannot understand. C.W.E. Bigsby has written that the central concern of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and several other plays is that wrenching object from setting and event from context "results not merely in a revealing absurdity but in a perception of the contingent nature of truth."
I misconceived the meaning of [Tom Stoppard's Jumpers] when I reported on it here last summer….
Stoppard, or at any rate, the play's protagonist George Moore, a professor of moral philosophy, wishes to prove that a belief in the existence of God is reasonable. There is a certain absurdity in this, for, as the professor himself declares,...
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