Tom Stoppard (Critical Survey of Drama)
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In addition to composing plays and occasionally adapting the dramas of others, Tom Stoppard has written several short stories, radio plays, teleplays, screenplays, and the novel Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon (1966). He prides himself on his versatility, eschewing the notion of the dedicated author plowing a lonely furrow and sacrificing almost all other concerns on the altar of high art. Instead, as he told an interviewer in 1976:
I’ve got a weakness . . . for rather shallow people who knock off a telly play and write a rather good novel and ....
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