Example sentences for: stoppard

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  • Where screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard made Gwyneth Paltrow the inspiration for the young poet's love-struck "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

  • It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.

  • Stoppard still scoffs at the idea that theater can be an agent of political awakening or social change: "If I wanted to change the world," he once told an interviewer, "the last thing I would do is write a play."

  • Since the late '70s, however, Stoppard has shown intermittent dissatisfaction with the kind of intellectual jeux d'esprit that made his name and has committed himself to a more ambitious theater of ideas.

  • Stoppard in Love


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