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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Hardcover)
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Theatre Guides
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Total price: R3,519
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This title provides 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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