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Tables of Contents for Tom Stoppard
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
ix
Note on References
xi
Introduction
1
6
Context and Background
7
13
Beyond Realism
7
2
Plays inside Plays
9
1
Modernism and the Theatre of the Absurd
10
5
Post-modernism?
15
2
A and minus A
17
1
The Dandy and the Would-be-good
17
3
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
20
43
Two Background Texts
21
5
Hamlet
21
3
Waiting for Godot
24
2
Rosencrantz: A Synopsis
26
2
`All the world's a stage'
28
3
Death
31
1
Reasoning
32
1
Characters
33
5
Stagecraft
38
6
Textual Notes
44
19
Jumpers
63
42
Synopsis
65
4
Philosophy
69
6
The existence of God
72
1
The God of Creation
72
1
`Good and bad' are only expressions of feelings
73
1
`The irreducible fact of goodness'
73
1
The limiting curve
74
1
Everyone is intuitionist really
75
1
Characters and Cartoons
75
5
Stagecraft
80
4
Archie's play
80
2
The three areas
82
2
Textual Notes
84
21
Travesties
105
50
The Expatriates of Zurich
106
5
James Joyce
106
1
Tristan Tzara
107
1
Lenin
108
1
Henry Carr
109
2
Background Text: The Importance of Being Earnest
111
4
Synopsis of Earnest
111
3
The scheme of Earnest
114
1
Travesties: Synopsis and Commentary
115
9
The Problem of Lenin
124
5
The 1993 revisions
127
2
Stagecraft
129
3
Characters
132
2
Textual Notes
134
21
Arcadia
155
74
Synopsis
158
10
Classical and Romantic: Order and Disorder
168
2
The Symbolism of Gardens
170
3
Byron
173
1
Determinism, Free Will, and the Apple in the Garden
174
2
Chaos
176
1
The Portfolio
177
1
Rice Pudding and the Steam Pump
178
1
What Drives Septimus Mad?
179
2
`The Attraction that Newton Left Out'
181
3
Characters
184
6
Stagecraft
190
10
Gus and Augustus
190
3
The single set
193
1
Alternating scenes
194
1
Simultaneity: the final scene
195
5
Arcadia: A Chronology
200
2
Textual Notes
202
27
Criticisms
229
10
Withdrawing With Style from the Chaos
229
2
Episodic Rather Than Organic
231
2
He Can't Do Women
233
2
All Head and No Heart
235
2
Charm
237
2
Select Bibliography
239