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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia: Modern Theatre Guides

Autor Dr John Fleming
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2009
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.Arcadiais 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 presentArcadiaoffers 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826496218
ISBN-10: 0826496210
Pagini: 134
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Modern Theatre Guides

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a guide to the sources and intellectual ideas in the play which are crucial for understanding it (including chaos theory, thermodynamics, and other complex scientific ideas and concepts) and explores the divide between Romanticism and Classicism.

Cuprins

General Preface Acknowledgements1. Background and Context2. Analysis and Commentary3. Production History4. Workshopping the PlayTimelineFurther Reading ReferencesIndex


Recenzii

Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1  'Drawing on previously unpublished material with Stoppard, Fleming's volume traces the history of the play's production and its cultural and historical context'
"Fleming's book offers the student and Stoppard enthusiast a fully researched and clearly written analysis of what many call Stoppard's best play. From the background and context section describing Stoppard's entire oeuvre to date, to the final section offering suggestions for teaching Arcadia, this book situates the play squarely within Stoppard's writing about science. Fleming's precise analyses of the play's characters and his informed discussion of its themes offer the student and instructor an intelligent framework for understanding Arcadia as a profound and comic play of ideas." - Katherine E. Kelly, Texas A&M University, USA

Descriere

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.