Jan 6, 2010

Travesties | What Do I Read Next?

Henry Carr and James Joyce met during a production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Stoppard borrows the comic situations and tone of the play as well as some of the characters for Travesties.

Lenin's wife Nadya reads from her biography Memories of Lenin (1930) in Travesties. The biography focuses on Lenin's experiences during the Russian Revolution.

In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966), Stoppard constructs a play around the absurd situations in which the two characters borrowed from Shakespeare's...