Bibliography
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- Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (novel), 1966
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1967
- Jumpers, 1972
- Travesties, 1974
- Night and Day, 1978
- The Real Inspector Hound, 1978
- Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (pair of one-act plays), 1979
- The Real Thing, 1982
- Arcadia, 1993
- The Invention of Love, 1997
- The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), 2002
A Good Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 2 |
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Tom Stoppard
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Ros and Guil is the canonical work, and probably the best place to start. Anyone who loves Romantic literature and can listen on their feet could treat themselves to a good production of Arcadia without any fear of disappointment. To the contrary, any contemporary student of Western literature should probably feel compelled to read (or better yet, see) Arcadia.
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Believe it or not, English was not Stoppard's mother tongue. He was born "Tom Straussler" in Zlin, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1937. His family moved to Singapore in 1939 to escape the Nazis. Then, shortly before the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941, young Tom fled to Darjeeling, India with his mother and brother. His father, however, Eugene Straussler, remained behind and was killed during the invasion. In 1946, the family emigrated to England after Tom's mother married Kenneth Stoppard, a major in the British army.
At the age of 17, after just his second year of highschool, Stoppard left school and began working as a journalist. He began to show a talent for dramatic criticism and served for a time as freelance drama. He also started writing plays for radio and television and soon managed to secure himself a literary agent. His first major success came with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) which made him famous. Over the next ten years, Stoppard wrote a number of successful plays, and translated plays by Schnitzler and Havel, among others. In 1977, after visiting Russia with a member of Amnesty International, Stoppard became concerned with a number of human rights issues which have manifested themselves in his work.
In addition to his work for the stage, Stoppard has written and co-authored a number of screenplays including most recently Shakespeare in Love and Enigma.
Excerpts from http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc46.html
eric January 29th, 2006 01:36 PM PST