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Arcadia
Arcadia
Author: Tom Stoppard
"Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - the "attraction which Newton left out.'".
ISBN: 55791
Pages: 97
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Publisher: Faber and Faber
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
A wonderful play about a mystery that took place in an English Manor in 1809.

Taking place in both 1809 and the 1990's the reader (or audience) will learn pieces of the truth from the people in both time periods.

In some scenes the 1800 and 1990's charecters will find themselves sharing the stage, but never will they both be sharing the same information with the reader.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great play! Well written and intriguing...blends real literary figure of Lord Byron with fictitious storylines set in two different time lines.
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Some of Tom Stoppard's best pyrotechnics in this little gem of a play. Full of ideas, witty dialogue, post-modern commentary, historical allusion and modern attitude.
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