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“On the Razzle puts [Stoppard’s] own distinctive spin on the farce … strewn with wordplays and verbal gymnastics, by turns brilliant and outrageously silly.”
—New York Times
“The play’s marriage of bristling intellectual wit and broad slapstick makes a curious, sometimes contradictory and always ingenious appeal to our highest and lowest natures—Oscar Wilde by way of ‘I Love Lucy.’”
—Los Angeles Times
Praise for Undiscovered Country
“A theatrical feast: a play that combines detailed psychology with a portrait of society … it’s a marvelous play because it pinpoints decadence with wit and irony.”
—Guardian (UK)
Praise for Rough Crossing
“Giddy with wordplay and dizzy with theatrical game-playing.”
—Boston Globe
“Adaptation in Stoppard’s terms means finding a sympathetic text and using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind … he weaves an increasingly amazing pattern of verbal misunderstandings, eccentric character development, showbiz spectacle, and sea-going hazards.”
—Times (UK)
“Accessible and ineffably charming … Radiant theater.”
—Chicago Tribune
Praise for Largo Desolato
“Largo Desolato in Tom Stoppard’s version emerges as a wonderfully comic and unself-pitying piece … A comic writer of genius.”
—Times (UK)
“A bitter comedy. It’s Athol Fugard at his bleakest and Kafka at his most horrifically absurd.”
—Newsday
PLAYS
The Hard Problem
Enter a Free Man
The Real Inspector Hound
After Magritte
Jumpers
Travesties
Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Night and Day
Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth
Arcadia
The Real Thing
Dalliance
Hapgood
Indian Ink
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Invention of Love
Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I
Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II
Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III
Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Coast of Utopia: A Trilogy
TELEVISION SCRIPTS
A Separate Peace
Teeth
Another Moon Called Earth
Neutral Ground
Professional Foul
Squaring the Circle
Parade’s End
FICTION
Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon
TOM STOPPARD
FIVE EUROPEAN PLAYS
On the Razzle © 1981, 1982 by Tom Stoppard
Rough Crossing © 1985 by David Alter, as Trustee, and Tom Stoppard
Undiscovered Country, English Translation © 1980 by Tom Stoppard
Dalliance, English Translation © 1986 by Tom Stoppard
Largo Desolato © 1985 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg
Largo Desolato © 1985 by Václav Havel
Published by arrangement with DILIA
Largo Desolato, English Version © 1987 by Tom Stoppard
Introduction © 2018 by Tom Stoppard
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On the Razzle first published in 1981 by Faber and Faber, Ltd.; Dalliance first published in 1986 by Faber and Faber, Ltd.; Undiscovered Country first published 1986 by Faber and Faber, Ltd.; Rough Crossing first published in 1985 by Faber and Faber, Ltd.; Largo Desolato first published in the United States in 1987 by Grove Press; Largo Desolato published by arrangement with Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek Bei Hamburg
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