Tom Stoppard's Arcadia [Hardcover]

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success.Arcadiais considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career.
With its engaging alteration between past and presentArcadiaoffers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science.

General PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Background and Context2. Analysis and Commentary3. Production History4. Workshopping the PlayTimelineFurther Reading ReferencesIndex