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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Paperback)
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Paperback)
Series: Modern Theatre Guides
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This is an accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom
Stoppard's "Arcadia" - a play commonly studied at undergraduate
level.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 early career love for words and ideas with his later
career emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement.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 the realms of math and science. This guide
provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving
students a much-needed overview of the play's background and
context including Stoppard's source material as well as full
discussion of the text and its performance history to
date."Continuum Modern Theatre Guides" offer concise, accessible
and informed introductions to the key plays of modern times. Each
book is carefully structured to offer a systematic study of the
play in its biographical, historical, social and political context,
an in-depth study of the text, an overview of the work's production
history including screen adaptations, and practical workshopping
exercises. They also include a timeline and suggestions for further
reading which highlight key critical approaches. This will enable
students to develop their understanding of playwrights and
theatre-makers, as well as inspiring them to broaden their studies.
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