Arcadia
$24.91
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2005
Summary
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the ‘500 acres inclusive of lake’ where Capability Brown’s idealized landscape is about to give way to the ‘picturesque’ Gothic style: ‘everything but vampires’, as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks in the same room 180 years later to Bernard Nightingale - who has arrived to uncover the scandal said to have taken place w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571169344 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571169341 |
| Author: | Tom Stoppard |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Series: | Faber Drama |
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Critics Review
“There’s no doubt about it. ‘Arcadia’ is Tom Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and … emotion. It’s like a dream of levitation: you’re instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you’re about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.” –Vincent Canby, The New York Times
“There’s no doubt about it. ‘Arcadia’ is Tom Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and … emotion. It’s like a dream of levitation: you’re instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you’re about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.”
–Vincent Canby, “The New York Times”
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard was born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia. His first major success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, was produced in London in 1967 at the Old Vic after critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent plays include Enter a Free Man, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink and The Invention of Love.
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