SOURCE: "A Trick of the Light: Tom Stoppard's Hapgood and Postabsurdist Theater," in Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama, edited by
John Wood as Henry Carr in the 1974 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Travesties at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn, The University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 175-201.
In this essay, Zeifman focuses on Hapgood to uncover a note of optimism which distinguishes Stoppard's plays from works by Samuel Beckett and other writers of absurdist drama.
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