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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
Contributor(s): Fleming, John (Author)
ISBN: 0826496210     ISBN-13: 9780826496218
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $26.68  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2009
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Annotation: An accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom Stoppard's Arcadia - a play commonly studied at undergraduate level.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts
- Literary Criticism
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.914
Series: Modern Theatre Guides
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.5" (0.35 lbs) 134 pages
 
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Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career.
With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science.