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Stoppard, Tom

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1937–, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (1946) settling in Bristol, England, where he became a journalist. In 1960 he moved to London, where he became a theater critic and wrote radio plays. He first gained prominence with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), a witty drama about peripheral characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Stoppard is noted for his idiosyncratic style, artful and complex construction, deft parody, profound intellectuality, wide-ranging knowledge, and ability to find significance in wordplay and bizarre juxtapositions of language and character. In Travesties (1974), for example, James Joyce , Lenin , and Tristan Tzara collaborate on a production of Oscar Wilde 's play The Importance of Being Earnest. Many critics consider his Jumpers (1973), a play that includes gymnastics, murder, song, dance, and ethical discussion, and Arcadia…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
There is a strong case for naming Stoppard as Britain’s outstanding playwright at the turn of the 20th c. With his broad range of subject matter and theatrical flair, he seems set to eclipse the more predictable Harold PINTER . His new plays are eagerly awaited, his old ones are revived around the…
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Full text Article Stoppard, Tom (1937– )

From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Playwright. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard grew up in Singapore before moving to England in 1946. His first major play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966–7), retold Hamlet through the eyes of its two unfortunate courtiers, reconceived as a *Beckettian double act. It established several…
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Full text Article Tom Stoppard (1937– )

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead II Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead II If your first is as big as the nucleus of one atom then the atom is as big as…
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Full text Article Tom Stoppard 1937– 

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Czechoslovakian-born British dramatist The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. spoken by the character Alexander Herzen The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2008) It's not the voting…
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Full text Article SOCIALISM

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists? BENNETT, Alan Forty Years On (1969). The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism. [Attr.] There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. [Attr.] As with the Christian religion, the worst…
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Full text Article UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Czech-born English playwright An electron can be here or there at the same moment. You can choose. It can go from here to there without going in between; it can pass through two doors at the same time, or from one door to another by a path which is there for all to see until someone looks, and then…
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Full text Article QUOTATIONS

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston My Early Life (1930). The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. D’ISRAELI, Isaac Curiosities of Literature . …
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Full text Article MEDIA

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
The BBC is full of men appointing men who remind them of themselves when young, so you get the same backgrounds, the same education, and the same programmes. BAKEWELL, Joan The Observer , 1993. The proliferation of radio and television channels has produced a wilderness of cave-dwellers instead of…
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Full text Article ALGORITHM

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Scottish writer Elegance is an algorithm. The Algebraist Orbit. London England . 2004. Indian-born historian of mathematics A “good” algorithm should have three properties: it should be clear and simple, laying out step by step the procedures to be followed it should emphasize the general character…
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