Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide

Jim Hunter

ISBN 10: 0571197825 / ISBN 13: 9780571197828

Published by Faber and Faber, GB, 2000

About this Item

Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide by Jim Hunter is the essential introduction, analysis and exploration of Tom Stoppard's enormously influential body of plays.Are you fascinated by Stoppard's plays but want an informed view into their complexities?Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation?Do you teach Stoppard and need a reliable guide?The Faber Critical Guide to Tom Stoppard's major work gives us all this and more:- an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work- the significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatre- a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays: language, structure and character- feature of performance- select bibliographyComplied by experts in their field, for use in the classroom, at college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of leading playwrights.Also in this series: Faber Critical Guides to the major works of Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Sean O'Casey and Harold Pinter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, GB
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571197825
• ISBN 13: 9780571197828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Main.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 141 grams

About this title

Synopsis

For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England's most admired dramatists. And for this edition of Faber Critical Guides, Jim Hunter examines four of Stoppard's finest works in the context of his entire oeuvre. Hunter writes, "Stoppard's plays present a unique interplay between fun today and the most basic and serious challenges to human understanding. He writes jokes and comic routines; but at the same time he is also writing about moral responsibility, about goodness, and about our scientific, mathematical, or philosophical understanding of reality.

About the Author

Jim Hunter is a lecturer at the Open University in England. He has edited two Faber collections of Modern Short Stories and is also the author of Tom Stoppard's Plays as well as several novels.