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Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos. By John Fleming. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001; pp. 344. $45 hardcover

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2003

Katherine E. Kelly
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University

Extract

John Fleming has used the Tom Stoppard archive, housed at the Harry J. Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, to bring before students and scholars of Stoppard's plays a rich array of contextualizing materials. Letters, manuscripts, notes, typescripts, and other documents provide a wider frame for viewing Stoppard's authorship than has been available before now. Fleming has used these materials to revisit the entire Stoppard dramatic canon to 2000, correcting some errors of fact passed down by critics, and by using more recent plays to comment on earlier ones, offering the first comprehensive critical monograph about Stoppard since 1992.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Copyright
© 2003 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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