Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

Description

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career. With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science. Cover Contents Acknowledgements General Preface 1 Background and Context 2 Analysis and Commentary 3 Production History 4 Workshopping the Play Timeline Further Reading References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z