Dec 24, 2009

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Author: Tom Stoppard
First Published: 1975
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Play of ideas
Time of Work: 1917-1918 and the 1970’s
Setting: Zurich, Switzerland
Genres: Drama, Problem play, Parody, War drama, Memory play
Subjects: 1970’s, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Revolutions, Art or artists, 1910’s, Novelists, Creative process, Comedy, Switzerland or Swiss people
Locales: Zurich, Switzerland

Characters Discussed

Henry Carr, an elegantly attired character who appears both as a very old man and as his youthful self. The character is modeled on a minor official by the same name who was in the English consulate in Switzerland during the turbulent years of World War I. The events of the play mirror history. As young Carr, this character is involved in a quarrel with James Joyce over money for clothes in a production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, in which Joyce is closely involved. As an old man, Carr narrates the events of the time, and it...

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