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Article: Tom Stoppard
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Tom Stoppard 1937-, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (1946) settling in Bristol, England, where he became a journalist. In 1960 he moved to London, where he became a theater critic and wrote radio plays. He first gained prominence with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
(1967), a witty drama about peripheral characters in Shakespeare's
Hamlet.
Stoppard is noted for his idiosyncratic style, artful and complex construction, deft parody, profound intellectuality, wide-ranging knowledge, and ability to find significance in wordplay and bizarre ...
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Article: TOM STOPPARD TACKLES SCHNITZLER
The Boston Globe;
January 28, 1987 ;
700+ words
... ... by Arthur Schnitzler, adapted by Tom Stoppard. Faber and Faber. 147 pp. $5.95 (paperback.) The problem," declares Tom Stoppard, "is in the difference between theater ... moods of humanity permeate his scenes. Tom Stoppard's versions perform a service to one ...
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