03010nam 2200613 a 450 991081623030332120240314000834.01-4438-4902-2(CKB)2670000000387701(EBL)1220972(OCoLC)851972396(SSID)ssj0000970321(PQKBManifestationID)12345712(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000970321(PQKBWorkID)11000061(PQKB)11276202(MiAaPQ)EBC1220972(Au-PeEL)EBL1220972(CaPaEBR)ebr10722233(CaONFJC)MIL830788(OCoLC)1230506241(FINmELB)ELB147702(EXLCZ)99267000000038770120130621d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr"The real thing" essays on Tom Stoppard in celebration of his 75th birthday /edited by William Baker and Amanda Smothers1st ed.Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.20131 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-4724-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE REAL THING: TOM STOPPARD INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN FIRTH; CHEKHOV'S STOPPARD; TOM STOPPARD: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNGMAN; STOPPARD'S ARCADIA; "THE ILLUSION OF PROPRIETORSHIP"; TOM STOPPARD, A.E. HOUSMAN, AND THE CLASSICS; STOPPARD'S SHAKESPEARE; INSECURITY, FRUSTRATION AND DISGUST IN TOM STOPPARD'S FICTION; THE INAUTHENTIC TRANSLATIONS IN THE INVENTION OF LOVE; LOST AND FOUND; WHO RULES THE EMPIRE?; CONFRONTATIONS WITH MORTALITY; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEXWith a writing career spanning over half a century and encompassing media as diverse as conferences, radio, journalism, fiction, theatre, film, and television, Tom Stoppard is probably the most prolific and significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrating Stoppard's 75th birthday address many facets of Stoppard's work, both the well-known, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, as well as the relatively critically neglected, including his novel Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon and his short stories, "The Story," "Life, Times: FragmeEnglish drama20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.822822.914822/.914Baker William295375Smothers Amanda1612038MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816230303321"The real thing"3940591UNINA