Stoppard

American

[stop-erd] / ˈstɒp ərd /

noun

Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.

Stoppard British

/ ˈstɒpɑːd /

noun

Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)

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One of the greatest plays of our time, Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” confronts Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” with our own elective affinities.

From Los Angeles Times

Unlike “Shakespeare in Love,” the script doesn’t have Tom Stoppard punching up the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times

Milne, like Lewis Carroll, was trained as a mathematician, and some of his dialogue reads like Tom Stoppard doing Wittgenstein: “How are you?”

From The Wall Street Journal

The playwright Tom Stoppard was 88 when he died on Nov. 29, but the news came as a shock nonetheless.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A severe blow to Logic” is how a character describes the death of a philosophy professor in Stoppard’s 1972 play “Jumpers.”

From Los Angeles Times

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