With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and
commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is
arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity
also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three
Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of
Stoppard's work in nearly a decade. He takes an in-depth look at
the three newest plays (Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Invention of
Love) and the recently revised versions of Travesties and Hapgood,
as well as at four other major plays (Rosencrantz, Jumpers, Night
and Day, and The Real Thing). Drawing on Stoppard's personal papers
at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
(HRHRC), Fleming also examines Stoppard's previously unknown play
Galileo, as well as numerous unpublished scripts and variant texts
of his published plays.
Fleming also mines Stoppard's papers for a fuller, more
detailed overview of the evolution of his plays. By considering
Stoppard's personal views (from both his correspondence and
interviews) and by examining his career from his earliest scripts
and productions through his most recent, this book provides all
that is essential for understanding and appreciating one of the
most complex and distinctive playwrights of our time.
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