A collection of 15 essays which cover topics relating to all of Tom Stoppard's major work. 10 half-tones This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard, including insights into the recent plays, Arcadia and Invention of Love, as well as his co-authored, academy award-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love. The volume also contains photographs from key productions, a biography and chronology. List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Katherine E. Kelly Part I. Background and Chronology: 1. Exit Tomas Straussler, enter Sir Tom Stoppard: the playwright of unidentical twins Paul Delaney Chronology Paul Delaney 2. 'In the Native State' and 'Indian Ink' Josephine Lee Part II. The Works: 3. Narrative difficulties in 'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon' Peter J. Rabinowitz 4. Stoppard's radio and television plays Elissa Guralnick 5. Stoppard and film Ira Nadel 6. The early stage plays Neil Sammells 7. 'Travesties', 'Night and Day', 'The Real Thing' Toby Zinman 8. Tom Stoppard and politics John Bull 9. Stoppard's Shakespeare: textual re-visions Jill L. Levenson 10. Science in 'Hapgood' and 'Arcadia' Paul Edwards 11. The comedy of Eros: Stoppard in Love Hersh Zeifman Part III. Culture and Context: 12. Tom Stoppard's Brit/Lit/Crit Enoch Brater 13. 'Is Postmodernism?': Stoppard among/against the Postmodern Michael Vanden Heuvel 14. The Tom Stoppard Collection at the Harry J. Ransom Humanities Research Center Melisa Miller Notes Bibliography Melissa Miller Index.