Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802195377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Tom Stoppard’s first novel, originally published in 1966 just before the premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is an uproarious fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach; Malquist’s Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket; a couple of cowboys, one being named Jasper Jones; a lion who’s banned from the Ritz; an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ; and three irresistible women.

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571227235
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
With a new introduction by the authorTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ, and three irresistible women.'Superb fantasy, mad, sad and uproarious by turn.' Oxford Times'A highly imaginative and theatrical black comedy, with a cunningly contrived denouement whose absurdity is chillingly logical.' Glasgow Herald'A bizarre book, full of pastiche, with language continually tripping up its characters.' Yorkshire Post'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon takes place in a dream-London where everything is seen through a haze of despair, and cowboys and a coach-and-pair and a pet lion wander with innumerable others through the plot, giving it a kind of child-like surrealism. It manages to be sad without being sentimental, and to give its fantasies a wit and exactness that make them fruitful and rewarding.' Sunday Telegraph

Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571104192
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802142719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Mr. Moon attempts to make a grand statement by setting off a bomb, but the bomb explodes with the force of a small balloon, and he dies later when the husband of a woman killed earlier by Moon's carriage throws a bomb into his lap.

Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

The Theatre of Tom Stoppard

Author: Anthony Jenkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379748
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Despite their box-office success, Tom Stoppard's plays have sometimes aroused academic hostility, his critics accusing Stoppard of cold intellectualism or frivolous showmanship. The purpose of this study is to examine the special problem of Stoppard's use of humor and games in conveying serious ideas. As an actor and director, Anthony Jenkins is concerned not just with the literary merit of Stoppard's plays, but also with the way they are written and shaped by the formal conventions particular to the media of stage, radio, and television. This book studies the stage space of each play as well as the actor's pauses and inner emotions. As a lecturer on drama, Jenkins follows Stoppard's career chronologically so that the radio and television plays are woven in with, and support various claims concerning, the major stage works. Unlike similar critical analyses of Stoppard's theater, this volume discusses all the latest plays, including The Real Thing, The Dog It Was That Died, and Squaring the Circle.

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

Author: Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645928
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

The Hard Problem

Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802190502
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question. She and other researchers at the institute are grappling with what science calls the “hard problem”—if there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? What Hilary discovers puts her fundamentally at odds with her colleagues, who include her first mentor and one-time lover, Spike; her boss, Leo; and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108349684
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
Tom Stoppard's work as a playwright and screenwriter has always been notable for mixing ideas with entertainment. From the early success of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to masterpieces like Arcadia, from radio plays about modern art to the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, Stoppard has challenged and delighted audiences with the intellectual and cultural richness of his writing. Tom Stoppard in Context provides multiple perspectives on both the life and works of one of the most important modern playwrights. This collection covers biographical and historical topics, as well as the broad array of intellectual, aesthetic, and political concerns with which Stoppard has engaged. More than thirty essays on subjects ranging from science to screenwriting help illuminate Stoppard's rich body of work.

Wilde Style

Author: Neil Sammells
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787949X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.