Stoppard, Tom (Vol. 8) - Stoppard, Tom 1937–
Stoppard, Tom 1937–
A Czech-born British playwright and novelist, Stoppard is noted for his humorous and innovative dramas. Best known for his popular play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Stoppard is the recipient of a Tony Award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. (See also CLC, Vols 1, 3, 4, 5.)
The external brilliances in Travesties, its manic virtuosity of language, its diabolical manipulation of time and notion, cannot elude any visitor to Tom Stoppard's verbal prank….
Stoppard's collage is … a jostling of dissimilar elements, personages related only in that they all happened to be in Zurich in 1917: James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, Tristan Tzara (a founder of Dada), and a British consular flunky named Henry Carr. As [Luciano] Berio uses Mahler as his objet trouvé, Stoppard uses [The Importance of Being Earnest]. That is because [his protagonist] Carr's one moment of relative glory, in a...
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