Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide (Paperback)

Jim Hunter

ISBN 10: 0571197825 / ISBN 13: 9780571197828

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2000

About this Item

Paperback. 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 to the plays?A Faber Critical Guide to Tom Stoppard's major work gives all this and more:an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's workthe significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatrea detailed analysis of each of the classic plays: language, structure and characterfeatures of performanceselect bibliography. 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? This book provides a detailed analysis of classic plays: language, structure and character. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide (Paperback)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571197825
• ISBN 13: 9780571197828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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.