Том Стоппард - автор 34 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы и другие пьесы, Изобретение любви. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
This third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard's writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the individual pieces came to be written and the circumstances of their original ...
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage written by her husband Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because He...
Professor Leopold Nettles, the "hero" of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of "disturbing the intellectual peace." Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tor-tured--by internal demons as well as external ones. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitaria...
Dirty Linen concerns the investigation of a Select Committee into the moral standards of the House of Commons - a somewhat unconventional investigation, rendered not less so by the presence of an ultra-sexy secretary whose clothes have a trick of whisking off in the hands of various members. Forms a double bill and contained in a volume with New-Found-Land.
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.The play was adapted for a film released in February 1990, with screenplay and direction by Stoppard. The motion picture is Stoppard's only film directing credit: "[I]t began to become clear that it might be a good idea if I did it myself - at l...
Британцу Тому Стоппарду удалось написать про интеллектуалов девятнадцатого века, стоявших у истоков свободной мысли и революции в России, так, что его читают и ставят в России второе десятилетие.Стоппарда всегда интересовал личный выбор человека в контексте исторических событий. Неудивительно, что Восточная Европа, и в особенности Россия, ее цикличная история реформ и репрессий и судьбы мыслящих л...