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Arcadia : A Play by Tom Stoppard (1993, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-100571169341
ISBN-139780571169344
eBay Product ID (ePID)555618
Product Key Features
Book TitleArcadia : a Play
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicScreenplays, Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Theater / Playwriting, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
GenreDrama, Performing Arts
AuthorTom Stoppard
Book SeriesFaber Drama Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight3.9 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-103754
ReviewsThere's no doubt about it. 'Arcadia' is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and ... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow., "There's no doubt about it. 'Arcadia' is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and ... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow." --Vincent Canby, The New York Times, "There's no doubt about it. 'Arcadia' is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and ... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow." -- Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal822/.914
SynopsisThis play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas., In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction', as Hannah says, 'which Newton left out'., This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks in the same room 180 years later to Bernard Nightingale - who has arrived to uncover the scandal said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park.Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction which Newton left out'.
LC Classification NumberPR6069.T6A84 1993
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- Mar 04, 2018
Great Play! Easy Read!
Easy to read and follow along.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 26, 2021
Best play
Probably his best play.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
