Tom Stoppard in Conversation

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British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words
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British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words
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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
A Note on the Text
Introduction 1
Success Is the Only Unusual Thing about Mr. Stoppard (1967) 12
Tom Stoppard (1968) 15
Our Changing Theatre, No. 3: Changes in Writing (1970) 24
Stoppard Refutes Himself, Endlessly (1972) 30
Arts Commentary (1972) 33
Dialogue with Tom Stoppard (1973) 38
Tom Stoppard (1973) 46
Ambushes for the Audience: Towards a High Comedy of Ideas (1974) 51
Jumpers Author Is Verbal Gymnast (1974) 73
'Call Me the Thinking Man's Farceur' (1974) 77
Tom Stoppard Eats Steak Tartare with Chocolate Sauce (1975) 80
Tom Stoppard (1977) 85
Tom Stoppard, Nonstop: Word Games with a Hit Playwright (1977) 89
A Playwright on the Side of Rationality (1977) 100
So Often Produced, He Ranks with Shaw (1977) 103
The Politicizing of Tom Stoppard (1978) 107
KGB to Blame in the End (1978) 113
The South Bank Show (1978) 115
A Playwright in Undiscovered Country (1979) 125
Stoppard's Intellectual Cartwheels Now with Music (1979) 129
This Time, Stoppard Plays It (Almost) Straight (1979) 135
Tom Stoppard and the Politics of Morality (1980) 141
Double Acts: Tom Stoppard and Peter Wood (1980) 145
Trad Tom Pops In (1981) 150
Tom Stoppard: Kind Heart and Prickly Mind (1984) 167
Two Men on an Ocean Wave (1984) 172
Tom Stoppard: The Art of Theater VII (1988) 177
Stoppard's Secret Agent (1988) 193
The Event and the Text (1988) 199
Full Stoppard (1989) 212
Welcome to the World of Tom Stoppard (1989) 225
Stoppard Ascending (1989) 231
Script Jockey: The Flickering Images of Theatre (1991) 235
Third Ear (1991) 239
Tom's Sound Affects (1991) 248
Stoppard Basks in a Late Indian Summer (1991) 252
Is The Real Inspector Hound a Shaggy Dog Story? (1992) 256
In a Country Garden (If It Is a Garden) (1993) 261
Plotting the Course of a Playwright (1993) 265
Bibliography 271
Index 295
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