The Invention of Love - Softcover

Stoppard, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571192718 ISBN 13: 9780571192717

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1997

Synopsis

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early manhood where High Victorianism in art, literature and morality is being challenged by the Aesthetic movement and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst on to the London scene...

The Invention of Love premiered at the National Theatre, London, in September 1997.

About this title

Book Description:

Tom Stoppard's play The Invention of Love, set on the Styx across which A. E. Housman is being ferried, soon draws in his memories of an Oxford University in which an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst on to the scene . . .

About the Author:

Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll and The Hard Problem. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon). Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0571192718
• ISBN 13: 9780571192717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112