Book contents
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Frontispiece
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Influences
- Part III Ideas
- Chapter 10 Philosophy
- Chapter 11 Science
- Chapter 12 Mathematics
- Chapter 13 History and Biography
- Chapter 14 Love and Sexuality
- Part IV Aesthetics
- Part V Politics
- Part VI Page, Stage, and Screen
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 13 - History and Biography
from Part III - Ideas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2021
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Frontispiece
- Tom Stoppard in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Influences
- Part III Ideas
- Chapter 10 Philosophy
- Chapter 11 Science
- Chapter 12 Mathematics
- Chapter 13 History and Biography
- Chapter 14 Love and Sexuality
- Part IV Aesthetics
- Part V Politics
- Part VI Page, Stage, and Screen
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The recurring themes of memory, history, and biography appear both as the subject of Stoppard’s plays and as the objects for which characters in those plays are searching, informing an engagement with themes of metahistory and metabiography in deeply recursive works like Travesties and Arcadia.
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- Tom Stoppard in Context , pp. 104 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021