Arcadia :a play in two acts
- 作者: Stoppard, Tom,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: 106 pages ;20 cm.
- 標題: English drama 20th century. , English drama , English literature , Drama 20th century. , Research , Drama , Teacher-student relationships , Truth , Time , English literature Research -- Drama. , Time Drama. , Truth Drama. , Teacher-student relationships Drama.
- ISBN: 0573695660 , 9780573695667
- 附註: Eight men, 4 women.
- 摘要: "Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve into intellectual and romantic issues. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits -- the attraction Newton left out."--Publisher.
- 系統號: 005336784
- 資料類型: 圖書
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In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later." "Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park." "Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores 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 - 'the attraction which Newton left out.
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