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Interwoven through many of these plays are the recurrent issues of the nature of personal identity as well as the unreliability or variability of human memory and perspective. He has considered the effects of colonialism as seen through a conflict of cultures and aesthetics. He has explored the nature of love and the requirements of intimate human relationships. Questions about the social responsibilities of the artist, journalist, and politician appear in plays that examine the role and nature of art, the relative merits of a free press, and the injustices and human rights violations of pre-perestroika Eastern Bloc politics. From philosophy, he has dramatized logical positivism, Wittgenstein's language games, and debates over whether morality is relative and socially constructed or grounded in metaphysical absolutes. From the world of science, he has tapped into the metaphoric potential of quantum physics and chaos theory. Stoppard's plays cover an eclectic array of themes and topics.

Beyond their status as award-winners these plays merit study and production by virtue of their intelligence, theatricality, and linguistic mastery. Of his nine major playsÃ¢â¬âRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), Jumpers (1972), Travesties (1974), Night and Day (1978), The Real Thing (1982), Hapgood (1988), Arcadia (1993), Indian Ink (1995), and The Invention of Love (1997)Ã¢â¬âonly Hapgood and Indian Ink have failed to win one of London's Best New Play Awards.

In contrast, Stoppard has consistently continued to garner both critical acclaim and commercial success. Since that assessment Pinter has done limited writing for the stage, while Shaffer's post-1980 work has received a mixed reaction.

Table of Contents * Acknowledgments * Annotated Chronology of Stoppard's Career * Introduction * Chapter 1: Career before Rosencrantz and Guildenstern * Chapter 2: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead * Chapter 3: Galileo * Chapter 4: Jumpers * Chapter 5: Travesties * Chapter 6: Examining Eastern Bloc Repression * Chapter 7: Night and Day * Chapter 8: The Real Thing * Chapter 9: Hapgood * Chapter 10: Arcadia * Chapter 11: Indian Ink * Chapter 12: The Invention of Love * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index Introduction In 1977, ten years after Tom Stoppard's breakthrough success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Kenneth Tynan, prominent critic and longtime Literary Manager for England's National Theatre, asserted that in terms of international prestige, the standard of British playwriting was held by Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer, and Stoppard.

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