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| travesties tom stoppard: Travesties Tom Stoppard, 2011-05-16 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. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Travesties Tom Stoppard, 1993 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Indian Ink Tom Stoppard, 2017-12-05 From Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, Indian Ink is a rich and moving portrait of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of history—the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe. The play follows free-spirited English poet Flora Crewe on her travels through India in the 1930s, where her intricate relationship with an Indian artist unfurls against the backdrop of a country seeking its independence. Fifty years later, in 1980s England, her younger sister Eleanor attempts to preserve the legacy of Flora’s controversial career, while Flora’s would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India. Fresh from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway performance in 2014, Indian Ink is reemerging as an important part of Stoppard’s oeuvre and the global dramatic canon, a fascinating, time-hopping masterwork. |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Hard Problem Tom Stoppard, 2015-09-22 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. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Jumpers Tom Stoppard, 1974 Murder, marriage and metaphysics--the three elements that link the bizarre series of events in Tom Stoppard's high-spirited comedy, Jumpers. The protagonists include George Moore, an aging professor of moral philosophy whose quest to compose a lecture on 'Man--Good, Bad or Indifferent' is put on hold while he ponders the existence of his sock; his youthful wife Dotty, a former musical star on a downward spiral whose charm may explain the corpse in the next room; George's specially trained hare, Thumper; and a chorus of poorly-trained gymnasts whose exploits set the stage for this topsy-turvy world. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Tom Stoppard Hermione Lee, 2021-02-23 A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. “An extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.” —Harper's Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love—remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard escaped the Nazis with his mother and spent his early years in Singapore and India before arriving in England at age eight. Skipping university, he embarked on a brilliant career, becoming close friends over the years with an astonishing array of writers, actors, directors, musicians, and political figures, from Peter O'Toole, Harold Pinter, and Stephen Spielberg to Mick Jagger and Václav Havel. Having long described himself as a bounced Czech, Stoppard only learned late in life of his mother's Jewish family and of the relatives he lost to the Holocaust. Lee's absorbing biography seamlessly weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful, and always riveting portrait of a remarkable man. |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard Katherine E. Kelly, 2001-09-20 Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard, 2007-12-01 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. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Tom Stoppard Daniel Keith Jernigan, 2012-11-15 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. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor Tom Stoppard, 1978 Every good boy deserves favor: This play criticises the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness --From publisher's description. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Leopoldstadt Tom Stoppard, 2020-08-25 **Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play** Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and endurance At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, Leopoldstadt is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Two Cities Cynthia Zarin, 2020-08-11 From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome—each a work of art, both a monument to the past—and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ—a traveler moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her, we see, anew, the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon, and San Michele, the island of the dead; the Piazza di Spagna, the Tiber, the view from the Gianicolo; the pigeons at San Marco and the parrots in the Doria Pamphili. As a poet first and foremost, Zarin’s attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice and Rome vividly to life for the reader. The sixteenth book in the expanding, renowned ekphrasis series, Two Cities creates space for these two historic cities to become characters themselves, their relationship to the writer as real as any love affair. |
| travesties tom stoppard: A Study Guide for Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Tom Stoppard's Travesties, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Night and Day , 2003 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Travesties by Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard, 1975 |
| travesties tom stoppard: On the Razzle Tom Stoppard, Johann Nestroy, 1982 Comedy Characters: 15 male, 10 female, extras, plus 6 musicians. Various interior and exterior sets or unit set. This recent hit in London is a free adaptation of the 19th century farce by Johann Nestroy that provided the plot for Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers, which led to The Matchmaker, which led to Hello, Dolly. The story is basically one long chase, chiefly after two naughty grocer's assistants who, when their master goes off on a binge with a new mistress, |
| travesties tom stoppard: Rock 'n' Roll Tom Stoppard, 2007 Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and of Cambridge where the verities of love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher. Rock 'n' Roll premiered at The Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2006. --Book Jacket. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Tom Stoppard Harold Bloom, 2009 Tom Stoppard is said to have transcended the influence of Samuel Beckett and found his true precursor in Oscar Wilde. This edition of Bloom's Major Dramatists examines Stoppard's work, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jump |
| travesties tom stoppard: Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 Tom Stoppard, 1999 This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. The collection includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which the reviewer for the Daily Telegraph said 'I have never left a new play more convinced that I'd just witnessed a masterpiece'. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Hamlet Travestie John Poole, 1811 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Apologie du dix-septième régiment d'infanterie, ci-devant Auvergne, envoyée à l'Assemblée nationale , 1791 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Three Days in the Country Ivan Turgenev, 2015-08-06 A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love. The love left unsaid and the love which must out. Ivan Turgenev's passionate, moving comedy, A Month in the Country, has been a source of inspiration for films, a ballet and the plays of Chekhov. Patrick Marber's Three Days in the Country premiered at the National Theatre, London, in June 2015 in association with Sonia Friedman Productions. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Enter a Free Man Tom Stoppard, 1972-01-01 A funny and compassionate play about a middle-aged inventor who has spent his years chasing one illusion after another while first his wife and then his teenage daughter have had to work to support him. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Dirty Linen and New-found-land Tom Stoppard, 1976 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Rose Allatini: A Woman Writer George Simmers, 2019 Rose Allatini is remembered today for writing 'Despised and Rejected', the only novel to be prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act during the Great War as 'liable to prejudice recruiting in His Majesty's forces. The book's positive depiction of homosexuals and conscientious objectors alarmed the wartime authorities. But Rose Allatini was also the author (under several disguises) of nearly forty other novels, over seven decades. This monograph sets out to dispel the myth that these other books were no more than romantic pot-boilers. The novels' themes include: critiques of the position of women in London and Vienna at the start of the twentieth century; an exploration of the experience of mental illness; warnings of the rise of Nazism in thirties Austria, depictions of the experiences of refugees in London during the Second World War; and speculations about spiritual healing. Rose Allatini was a novelist who went where many others did not care to venture. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Don Juan in SoHo Patrick Marber, 2021-02-09 DJ will go to bed with anything that breathes. His lust is so unquenchable that he’s employed his friend and assistant, Stan, to organize his ever-growing digital Rolodex of partners. As the two of them romp the streets of London’s Soho seeking DJ’s next conquest, they leave a wreckage of heartbreak and betrayal in their wake. A racy twist on Molière’s Don Juan, Patrick Marber’s irresistible adaptation imagines the classic antihero in the twenty-first century, where idiocy, masculinity, and hubris still reign. |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard, 1969 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. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Tom Stoppard in Conversation Tom Stoppard, 1994 British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words |
| travesties tom stoppard: Hapgood Tom Stoppard, 1988 With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that spins an end-of-the-cold-war tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light (David Richards, The New York Times), It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayals--doubles and triples and possibly quadruples--continues to multiply. |
| travesties tom stoppard: A Stylistics of Drama Peter K. W. Tan, 1993 This study looks at how stylistic methods apply to drama texts, and focuses its attention on Stoppard's Traversties, which, by its parodic nature, compels an investigation of literary parody as an intertextual mode. The author first seeks to place stylistics within a historical and procedural framework and considers ideological and procedural impasses that have bedevilled stylistic analyses. Detailed analyses of passages from Travesties in the light of what has been discussed then follows. |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Prisoners of War Joe Randolph Ackerley, 1927 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Official Script Book of the Original West J-K Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, 2016-08-22 The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London s West End on July 30, 2016. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Judas Kiss David Hare, 2012-10-04 Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity. Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. 'Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.' Time Out, New York |
| travesties tom stoppard: The Structure of Tom Stoppard's Travesties Michaela Anne O'Brien, 1978 |
| travesties tom stoppard: James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses Frank Budgen, 1937 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Rough Crossing Tom Stoppard, 1991 Based on a classic farce, Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnar, Rough Crossing takes place on shipboard as two playwrights struggle to finish a musical comedy and rehearse it before docking in New York in On the Razzle, adapted from Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, two shop assistants live it up while dodging their employer in the restaurants and nightspots of Nestroy's nineteenth-century Vienna. Both words and action reveal Tom Stoppard as a master of comic technique. |
| travesties tom stoppard: Modern One-act Plays Horst Buss, 1986 |
| travesties tom stoppard: Arcadia Tom Stoppard, 2017-07-11 “It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”—Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the “five hundred acres inclusive of lake” where Capability Brown’s idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: “everything but vampires,” as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. Tom Stoppard’s masterful 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,” as Hannah says, “which Newton left out.” |
| travesties tom stoppard: Conversations with Stoppard Tom Stoppard, Mel Gussow, 1995 Limelight |
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The meaning of TRAVESTY is a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation. How to use travesty in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Travesty.
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Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an old man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James …
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Travesty definition: a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation.. See examples of TRAVESTY used in a sentence.
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Jan 21, 1994 · 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 …
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Travesties is the funny, clever and generally mind-blowing proof of Tom Stoppard’s genius. Henry Carr weaves a tale of the famous people he knew in his youth – from Dadaist Tristan Tzara, to …
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Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “Travesties” by Tom Stoppard. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with …
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Definition of travesty noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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Travesties contains a play within a play in that four of Stoppard’s characters act out (without knowing it) the roles of the confused quartet in Wilde’s comedy: Henry Carr is Algernon; Tristan …
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Define travesties. travesties synonyms, travesties pronunciation, travesties translation, English dictionary definition of travesties. n. pl. trav·es·ties 1. A debased or grotesque likeness: elections …
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Travesty definition: A debased or grotesque likeness.Origin of Travesty From obsolete disguised, burlesqued from French travesti past participle of travestir to disguise, parody from Italian …
TRAVESTY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of TRAVESTY is a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation. How to use travesty in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Travesty.
Travesties - Wikipedia
Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an old man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James …
TRAVESTY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Travesty definition: a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation.. See examples of TRAVESTY used in a sentence.
Travesties (Tom Stoppard) - amazon.com
Jan 21, 1994 · 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 …
Travesties | American Players Theatre
Travesties is the funny, clever and generally mind-blowing proof of Tom Stoppard’s genius. Henry Carr weaves a tale of the famous people he knew in his youth – from Dadaist Tristan Tzara, to …
Travesties Summary | SuperSummary
Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “Travesties” by Tom Stoppard. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study …
travesty noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...
Definition of travesty noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Travesties | Encyclopedia.com
Travesties contains a play within a play in that four of Stoppard’s characters act out (without knowing it) the roles of the confused quartet in Wilde’s comedy: Henry Carr is Algernon; …
Travesties - definition of travesties by The Free Dictionary
Define travesties. travesties synonyms, travesties pronunciation, travesties translation, English dictionary definition of travesties. n. pl. trav·es·ties 1. A debased or grotesque likeness: …
Travesty Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Travesty definition: A debased or grotesque likeness.Origin of Travesty From obsolete disguised, burlesqued from French travesti past participle of travestir to disguise, parody from Italian …
