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One of England's most important playwrights, Tom Stoppard (born 1937) gained a wide international audience. His two great stage successes were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing, and his co-written screenplay Shakespeare in Love was...

[This entry was updated by Anne Wright (University of Sunderland) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 366-388.] Tom Stoppard, a leading figure of the British theater since the mid 1960s, ranks as a dramat...

Tom Stoppard, a leading figure of the British theater since the mid 1960s, ranks as a dramatist of brilliant and original comic genius. His first major success established him as a master of philosophical farce, combining dazzling theatricality and wit w...

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard, often thought of as the quintessential contemporary English playwright and gentleman, was actually born Tomas Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, on July 3, 1937. Stoppard took the name of his stepfather,...

Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of...

Richard KnerrARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur "Spud" Melin, died Monday at a...

Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur "Spud" Melin, died Monday at Methodist Hospital after suffering a stroke...

Russell JohnsonNEW YORK (AP) _ Russell Johnson, who designed the acclaimed acoustics for several of the world's leading concert and opera venues, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, has died. He was 83.Johnson died Tuesday in his sleep at his home in New York, according to...

A state judge has removed one of the executors handling the affairs of the late Celia Cruz and ordered him to provide details on any deals he made regarding the singer, beloved as the "Queen of Salsa."Superior Court Judge Peter E. Doyne, who sits in...

[An American-born English educator and critic, Barton has written extensively on English drama. In the review below, she discusses language and theme in Arcadia, particularly the interaction between the past and present.]

[Lahr is an award-winning American critic, nonfiction writer, playwright, novelist, biographer, and editor. In the review below, he discusses the interplay between chaos and order as well as the past and present in Arcadia.]

[In the review below, Appelo remarks favorably on Arcadia.]