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Original Title:	Arcadia
ISBN:	0571169341 (ISBN13: 9780571169344)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (1994), Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year (1993), New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play (1995)

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Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific, literary--that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow... Exhilarating" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times).

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Title	:	Arcadia
Author	:	Tom Stoppard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 97 pages
Published	:	September 24th 1994 by Faber Faber (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction

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I listened to the audio version of this in the car and just loved it. It was a full ensemble, made easy by the fact that it's a play, so everything is spoken anyway. It's so clever, and keeps you on your toes trying to figure out the relationships and what's going on. It was sometimes a little tough to figure out the voices and who was speaking, but I'm pretty sure I got most of it.The words and ideas in this are just so beautiful. It's a story about science concepts and historical dialogue, and

The Waltz of TimeReading Iain Pears' brilliant novel Arcadia just now, I wondered how it might have been influenced by Tom Stoppard's 1993 play of the same title, which has been described [in the article I shall cite below] as "maybe the greatest play of our age." Answer: very much, and yet hardly at all. Stoppard casts his play of ideas as a drawing-room comedyor rather two comedies alternating in the same room, the one beginning in 1809, the other in 1990. Pears infuses his ideas into a

Stoppard's wit and craftsmanship infuse every line. This is an absorbing exploration of the differences between the Romantic and Classical temperaments--between feeling and thought--as well as an investigation into the connections between science and literature, all shaken and linked by the unifying disruption of sex. It's a tour-de-force that requires your share of creative work, but also makes you laugh out loud. (Jeff B., Reader's Services)

Enough people love this play that it presumably has some good qualities. But I just couldn't get past the snide, obnoxious characters, and the facile, frequently inaccurate treatment of science and math, which panders to the "science is just the product of fallible human impulses and, like, we don't really know anything for sure anyway, man" attitude that has become the norm among intellectuals and wannabe intellectuals who, for one reason or another, aren't interested in science.As a

Listened to an audio version of this on the recommendation of Rachel Manija Brown and loved it. It explores ideas in mathematics and physics, and the play itself loops around in a recursive way, such that characters from the present echo those in the past; it pokes fun at academic research and fashion in literature and landscape gardening; and it manages to contain both great one-off quips and thought-provoking ruminations without either feeling forced. Thomasina, a thirteen-year-old with a gift

My favorite play by Tom Stoppard, whos often been referred to as one of the cleverest and most literate minds currently writing for the stage or anywhere else, for that matter. His work is unfailingly intellectual in the best sense of the word, alive with the energy of a naturally brilliant and inquisitive mind constantly in motion: gleefully absorbing new information, delighting in the juxtaposition of unlikely ideas (philosophy and gymnastics, for example) and forever doubling back to

(See full sized image here)When I announced that I wanted to study both Bio/Chem and English at A Level, I was met with a flood of snide comments from various supercilious adults: "That's a bit of a divergence, isn't it? Whatever do you intend to do with that combination?!" Well, having come out the other side relatively unscathed I can testify completely that the Sciences and the Arts are actually perfectly compatible in many ways - (just don't tell Annabella Milbanke, aka ex. Lady Byron) - and