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Book The Real Inspector Hound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : New York : Grove Press
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 9780394173139
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.

Book The Real Inspector Hound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN : 9780573614675
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.-- from publisher's website.

Book The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. Includes: “The Real Inspector Hound” “After Margritte” “Dirty Linen” “New-Found-Land” “Dogg’s Hamlet” “Cahoot’s Macbeth”

Book The Real Inspector Hound

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the plays The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth and After Magritte.

Book The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte written by Tom Stoppard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tom Stoppard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Keith Jernigan
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2012-11-15
  • ISBN : 0786465328
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by Daniel Keith Jernigan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

Book The Invention of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2014-11-18
  • ISBN : 0802191703
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Invention of Love written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?

Book The Hard Problem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 0802190502
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Hard Problem written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question. She and other researchers at the institute are grappling with what science calls the “hard problem”—if there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? What Hilary discovers puts her fundamentally at odds with her colleagues, who include her first mentor and one-time lover, Spike; her boss, Leo; and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Book The Real Inspector Hound

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Tom Stoppard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plays One

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber Plays
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Plays One written by Tom Stoppard and published by Faber & Faber Plays. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: The real Inspector Hound; After Magritte; Dirty linen; New-found-land; Dogg's Hamlet; Cahoot's Macbeth.

Book Consiglieri

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Hytner
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2014-06-05
  • ISBN : 1782831460
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Consiglieri written by Richard Hytner and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to success lies in getting to the top, right? Wrong. Not everyone can be in charge but, more importantly, not everyone should want to be. Richard Hytner, Deputy Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, thinks it's time to celebrate the second-in-commands, the consiglieri: from Merlin, to Al Gore, Rasputin to Machiavelli. These are the deputies, the Vice Presidents, the C-suite, the department heads - lieutenants, advisers, and counselors - whose influence determines the fate of boardrooms, corporations, and nations. While supremacy comes with drawbacks and influence, authority and power can be found in much more interesting places than the CEO's chair. Consiglieri: Leading from The Shadows brings together historical examples from Harry Hopkins to William Seward, conversations with contemporary second-in-commands like Tony Blair and Sir Alex Ferguson, and unique insights into Stalin, JFK, and Winnie the Pooh. A mirror for contemporary 'No. 2's' and a theoretical map for future consiglieri, the book traverses an array of powerful advisers from the White House to the Vatican, across international business, sports, and entertainment, as well as citing provocative research from psychology and academia.

Book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Download or read book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.

Book A Separate Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 0573625131
  • Pages : 12 pages

Download or read book A Separate Peace written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Real Inspector Hound

Download or read book The Real Inspector Hound written by Theatre Plus Archives and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travesties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-05-16
  • ISBN : 0802195326
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Travesties written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travesties" was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin – were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholly riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.

Book The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Download or read book The Fifteen Minute Hamlet written by Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... The author continues his association with Hamlet by taking the most famous and best loved lines from Shakespeare's play and condensing them into a hilarious thirteen minute version. This miraculous feat is followed by an encore which consists of a two-minute version of the play! The vast multitude of characters are played by six actors with hectic doubling, and the action takes place at a shortened version of Elshore Castle."--Publisher description.

Book Tom Stoppard  Plays 5

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0571197515
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Tom Stoppard Plays 5 written by Tom Stoppard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classics by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.