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Stoppard has written one novel, Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), set in contemporary London. Its cast includes the 18th-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, and also cowboys, a lion (banned from the Ritz) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the Risen Christ.
Jul 4, 2024 · Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. His notable plays included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia. He also cowrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
Feb 22, 2021 · Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life. A new biography enables us to see beneath the intellectual dazzle of the playwright’s work. By Anthony Lane. February 22, 2021. Stoppard’s plays are...
Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London. His latest plays include Heroes (2005), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). He has written the screenplays for adaptations of Anna Karenina (2012) and Tulip Fever (2014), and co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Read more.
Jul 18, 2022 · Born Tomáš Sträussler, in what was then Czechoslovakia, celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard (1937- ) became one of the best known British playwrights in the world. Known for his wit and humor, his facility with language, and the depth of his philosophical inquiries, he found success with plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , The ...
Sir Tom Stoppard, orig. Tomas Straussler, (born July 3, 1937, Zlín, Czech.), Czech-born British playwright. After living in East Asia with his family during World War II, he moved to England and adopted his stepfather’s surname.
Nov 28, 2022 · In the time since Stoppard wrote his decades-spanning tragedy about a Viennese Jewish family ultimately doomed by the Holocaust — indeed, even since “Leopoldstadt” opened on Broadway...
Sep 7, 2022 · DORSET, England — Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making a...
Oct 2, 2022 · Tom Stoppard Assesses the Cost of His Charmed Life. 8 minute read. Playwright Tom Stoppard photographed at Cafe Sabarsky in the Neue Galerie on Sept. 15, 2022. Evelyn Freja for TIME. By...
Oct 24, 2020 · Tom Stoppard has written some of the most important plays of the past 50 years. These challenging works each receive detailed analysis here.
