| Arcadia Contributor(s): Stoppard, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0573017182 ISBN-13: 9780573017186 Publisher: Samuel French Ltd OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.39 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is Tom Stoppard's award-winning play, set in Derbyshire. The orderly classicism of Lady Croom's Capability Brown grounds are being turned into picturesque romantic chaos, as fashion dictates, by landscape architect Culpability Noakes. In a Regency room overlooking the work is Lady Croom's brilliant adolescent daughter - Thomasina Coverly, with her handsome, clever tutor Septimus Hodge. Their maths lesson is disturbed by, among others, the imperious, amorous Lady Croom and Ezra Chater, a cuckold and minor poet, determined on satisfaction. One hundred and eighty years later, in the same room, a corresponding group, comprising a mathematician, a biographer/historian, and a vulgar academic, try to unravel the events of 1809 - with spectacularly wrong results. |