ENGLISH

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul

By Tom Stoppard

Book information

Publisher
Grove press
Year
1994
ISBN
0802150454, 9780802150455
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
187 kB (191006 bytes)
Pages
188\0
Time added
2017-09-11 09:05:41
British & Irish;Dramas & Plays;Literature & Fictio

Description

It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.

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