Tom Stoppard's work as a playwright and screenwriter has always been notable for mixing ideas with entertainment. From the early success of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to masterpieces like Arcadia, from radio plays about modern art to the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, Stoppard has challenged and delighted audiences with the intellectual and cultural richness of his writing. Tom Stoppard in Context provides multiple perspectives on both the life and works of one of the most important modern playwrights. This collection covers biographical and historical topics, as well as the broad array of intellectual, aesthetic, and political concerns with which Stoppard has engaged. More than thirty essays on subjects ranging from science to screenwriting help illuminate Stoppard's rich body of work.
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Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.
Part I. Origins:
1. Name, Family, and Identity William Baker;
2.
Czechoslovakia Tomá Kaer;
3. Singapore and India Daniel Jernigan;
4.
England Claire Cochrane; Part II. Influences:
5. William Shakespeare James N.
Loehlin;
6. Russian Literature and Culture Ira Nadel;
7. Oscar Wilde Benedict
Alexander Feldman;
8. Samuel Beckett Kersti Powell;
9. Václav Havel Michael
antovský; Part III. Ideas:
10. Philosophy David Kornhaber;
11. Science
William Demastes;
12. Mathematics Liliane Campos;
13. History and Biography
Martin Middeke;
14. Love and Sexuality Roberta Barker; Part IV. Aesthetics:
15. Art and Aesthetics John Fleming;
16. Classicism and Romanticism Mike
Vanden Heuvel;
17. Modernism and the Avant-Garde Jonathan Goldman;
18. Music
Irene Morra; Part V. Politics:
19. Ideology John Bull;
20. Communism Ramona
Mosse;
21. The Cold War John Elsom;
22. Human Rights and Censorship Mark
Hurst;
23. Empire, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism Nandi Bhatia; Part VI.
Page, Stage, and Screen:
24. Postwar British Theatre Dan Rebellato;
25.
Acting in Stoppard Samuel West;
26. Adaptations R. Darren Gobert;
27.
Journalism and Criticism Mark Lawson;
28. Prose Writings Neil Sammells;
29.
Radio and Television Jamie Jesson;
30. Screenwriting Brice Ezell and Rachel
Joseph;
31. Stoppard's Archives Eric Colleary.
David Kornhaber is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Theatre & Knowledge (2019) and The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama (2016). He is, with Lawrence Switzky, the editor of the journal Modern Drama. James N. Loehlin is Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Doctor Faustus (2015), The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov (Cambridge, 2012), Henry IV (2008), Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Cambridge, 2010), Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge, 2002), and Henry V (1996).
