Tom Stoppard's Arcadia - Brossura

Fleming, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826496210 ISBN 13: 9780826496218

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Drawing on previously unpublished material with Stoppard, Fleming s volume traces the history of the play s production and its cultural and historical context --Year s work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1

L'autore:

John Fleming is Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University, USA. He has conducted extensive research in the Tom Stoppard Archive at the University of Texas and is the author of Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos (University of Texas Press)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826496210
• ISBN 13: 9780826496218
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 122