Tom Stoppard è un drammaturgo e sceneggiatore britannico di origine ceca, celebre per i suoi contributi al teatro, al cinema, alla televisione e alla radio. Tra le sue opere teatrali più acclamate figurano "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "Arcadia", "The Real Thing" e "Leopoldstadt", quest’ultima vincitrice sia del Laurence Olivier Award per la Miglior Nuova Opera Teatrale che del Tony Award per la Miglior Opera Teatrale. Come sceneggiatore, ha firmato film di successo come "Shakespeare in Love", che gli valse un Premio Oscar, e "Brazil", oltre ad adattamenti quali "Empire of the Sun" e "Anna Karenina". Nominato cavaliere nel 1997 per i suoi servizi al teatro, Stoppard rimane uno dei drammaturghi più rappresentati a livello internazionale della sua generazione.
Le opere di Stoppard esplorano spesso temi come la libertà politica, i diritti umani e la censura, intrecciando complessità filosofiche alle sue narrazioni. Nato in Cecoslovacchia, fuggì dall’occupazione nazista da bambino rifugiato, stabilendosi infine in Gran Bretagna dopo gli anni di guerra trascorsi in India. Il suo background eterogeneo influenza la sua gamma intellettuale e stilistica, dall’umorismo assurdo di "Jumpers" alla profondità storica di "The Coast of Utopia". Ex giornalista e critico teatrale, Stoppard passò alla drammaturgia nel 1960, affermandosi rapidamente come maestro di destrezza linguistica e ricchezza tematica.
Nel corso della sua carriera, Stoppard ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui cinque Tony Award e l’appellativo di una delle figure culturali più influenti della Gran Bretagna. La sua opera del 2020, "Leopoldstadt", un commovente esplorazione dell’identità ebraica nella Vienna del primo Novecento, ha segnato un trionfale ritorno sulle scene, consolidando ulteriormente la sua eredità come figura dominante nel teatro contemporaneo.
The Coast of Utopia Books
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Voyage
2002
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Shipwreck
2002
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Salvage
2002
Romanzi singoli
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Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon
1966
Spettacoli teatrali
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1966
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Enter a Free Man
1968
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The Real Inspector Hound
1968
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After Magritte
1969
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A Separate Peace
1969
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Albert's Bridge
1969
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Jumpers
1972
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Artist Descending a Staircase
1973
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Travesties
1975
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1976
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Dirty Linen
1976
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If You're Glad I'll Be Frank
1976
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1977
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Night and Day
1978
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Undiscovered Country
1980
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On the Razzle
1981
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The Real Thing
1982
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Squaring the Circle
1984
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Dalliance
1986
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Hapgood
1988
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In the Native State
1991
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Arcadia
1993
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Indian Ink
1995
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The Boundary
1995
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The Invention of Love
1997
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Rock 'n' Roll
2006
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Parade's End
2012
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The Hard Problem
2015
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The Seagull
2018
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Leopoldstadt
2020
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Penelope
2022
Collezioni
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Four Plays for Radio
1984
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The Plays for Radio, 1964-1983
1990
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The Television Plays, 1965-1984
1994
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The Radio Plays
2012
Faber Drama Books
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The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus )
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The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus)
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The Complete Dramatic Works (By: Samuel Beckett)
1961
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Faith Healer (By: Brian Friel)
1980
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Translations (By: Brian Friel)
1981
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The Cure at Troy (By: Seamus Heaney)
1991
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Skylight (By: David Hare)
1995
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Theatre for Children (By: David Wood - UK, Janet Grant)
1999
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The Shape of Things (By: Neil LaBute)
2001
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The Pillowman (By: Martin McDonagh)
2003
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The History Boys (By: Alan Bennett)
2004
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Attempts on Her Life (By: Martin Crimp)
2007
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Midsummer (By: David Greig)
2009
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Dunsinane (By: David Greig)
2010
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Black Watch (By: Gregory Burke)
2010
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (By: David Greig)
2011
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Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays (By: Samuel Beckett)
2012
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Theatre Craft (By: John Caird)
2013
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Look Back in Anger (By: John Osborne)
2013
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Betrayal (By: Harold Pinter)
2013
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Impro for Storytellers (By: Keith Johnstone)
2014
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Shakespeare in Love (With: Lee Hall, Marc Norman)
2014
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Marina Carr Plays 1 (By: Marina Carr)
2014
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The Hard Problem
2015
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (By: Lee Hall)
2015
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The Moderate Soprano (By: David Hare)
2015
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Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 1 (By: Brian Friel)
2016
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This Restless House (By: Zinnie Harris)
2016
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Labyrinth (By: Beth Steel)
2016
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Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2 (By: Brian Friel)
2016
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Dedication (By: Nick Dear)
2016
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Donegal (By: Frank McGuinness)
2016
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Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 3 (By: Brian Friel)
2016
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The Red Barn (By: David Hare)
2016
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The Sewing Group (By: E.V. Crowe)
2016
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Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation (By: Owen Sheers, Ceri Wyn Jones)
2017
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My Country; A Work In Progress (By: Carol Ann Duffy, Rufus Norris)
2017
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The Mentor (By: Christopher Hampton, Daniel Kehlmann)
2017
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Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 4 (By: Brian Friel)
2016
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Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 5 (By: Brian Friel)
2016
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Winter Hill (By: Timberlake Wertenbaker)
2017
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The Sum (By: Lizzie Nunnery)
2017
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Arcadia
2017
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Meet Me at Dawn (By: Zinnie Harris)
2017
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The Lie (By: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
2017
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On Blueberry Hill ( By: Sebastian Barry)
2017
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Christmas Eve (By: Christopher Hampton, Daniel Kehlmann)
2017
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Wind Resistance (By: Karine Polwart Ltd)
2017
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Box of Delights (By: John Masefield)
2017
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The Jungle (By: Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson)
2017
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Julie (By: August Strindberg)
2018
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The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings (By: John McGahern)
2018
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Unicorns, Almost (By: Owen Sheers)
2018
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Greek and Decadence (By: Steven Berkoff)
2018
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The Meeting (By: Charlotte Jones)
2018
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Alan Ayckbourn ( By: Alan Ayckbourn)
2018
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The Short Plays of Harold Pinter (By: Harold Pinter)
2018
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Touching the Void (By: David Greig)
2018
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The Height of the Storm (By: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
2018
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The Village (By: April De Angelis)
2018
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I'm Not Running (By: David Hare)
2018
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A Very Very Very Dark Matter (By: Martin McDonagh)
2018
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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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The Hamburg Plays (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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Writing for Nothing (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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The Inheritance (By: Matthew Lopez)
2020
Libri di non-fiction
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Doing It: Five Performing Arts (With: Robert B. Silvers, Charles Rosen)