The invention of love
Stoppard, Tom1997
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Tom Stoppard is one of Britain's most successful and popular playwrights. This play is centred around A. E. Housman, a poet and classics scholar whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early manhood where High Victorianism in art, literature and morality is being challenged by the Aesthetic movement and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst on to the London scene... The Invention of Love premiered at the National Theatre, London, in September 1997.
Main title:
The invention of love / Tom Stoppard.
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Imprint:
London : Faber, 1997.
Collation:
106p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780571192717 (pbk)9780571192731 (hbk)
Dewey class:
822.914
Language:
English
BRN:
1947741