Article: Life in Progress? A Canadian academic attempts a biography of British playwright Tom Stoppard.(Book Review)

Herb Greer is a contributing editor to the Arts section of the The World & I. His review of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia appears in this month's Arts section on page 98.

 
Book Info:TOM STOPPARD 
A Life 
Ira Nadel 
Publisher:New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 
384 pp., $29.95 

Tom Stoppard has been one of the most delightful of British playwrights. At their best, his dramatic experiments in the use of probability theory, physics, and the mathematics of chaos, leavened with an astonishing facility in the comic ambiguities of the English language, have made him internationally popular.

Readers of Tom Stoppard: A Life will therefore be surprised ...

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