Example sentences for: stoppard

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  • But while Stoppard has slummed a bit for the big screen, he has done some of his most serious and demanding work for the small one: Professional Foul , a 1977 BBC commission, addressed the moral dilemmas faced by a group of English academics at a philosophical conference in Prague; and Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81 , broadcast in 1984, brought the playful self-consciousness of Travesties to the deadly serious events surrounding the Lenin Shipyard strike and the subsequent government crackdown.

  • And, while you're at it, please share your opinion of the plays of Tom Stoppard.

  • And while many theatergoers will arrive at Stoppard's most recent play, The Invention of Love , with some notion of Oscar Wilde's glorious career and tragic end (especially if they have already seen Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency or read Pat Barker's novel The Eye in the Door ), few will be familiar with the life and work of the Oxford classicist and poet A.E.

  • In the 1970s, Stoppard augmented his play writing with screenwriting, enhancing his highbrow reputation by supplying scripts for auteurs Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Joseph Losey.

  • Eliot, who will no doubt share screenwriting credit with Stoppard in the film version of Cats , once referred to his poetry as a "superior amusement," a description that applies to Stoppard's plays as well: They are amusing, and they make us feel superior.


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