@article{455487,
      recid = {455487},
      author = {Demastes, William W.},
      title = {The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, [England]  ;},
      pages = {ix, 166 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Tom Stoppard is widely considered to be one of the most  important dramatists of contemporary theatre. In this  Introduction, William Demastes provides an accessible  overview of Stoppard's life and work, exploring all the  complexity and variety that makes his drama so unique.  Illustrated with images from a diverse range of Stoppard  productions, the book provides clear evaluations of his  major works, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are  Dead, Travesties, Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia, to  provide the most up-to-date assessment available. Detailed  chapters situate each play in the context of its sources,  which include Shakespeare and contemporary existential  thought, espionage, quantum physics, chaos theory,  romanticism, landscape design, nineteenth-century European  intellectual thought and European totalitarianism. The book  also includes a section on Stoppard's Academy Award-winning  film Shakespeare in Love"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455487},
}