The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

The latest addition to The Cambridge Companions to Literature series focuses on the writings of Tom Stoppard who was born in 1937 Tomás Sträussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia. Stoppard remains very productive. Contributors to the volume come from both sides of the Atlantic and represent both Professors of Literature and Professors of Drama. The detailed biographical chronology, outlining the main events in Stoppard’s life and career, by Katherine E. Kelly, the editor of the volume, is followed by her “Introduction: Tom Stoppard in transformation”. In this she emphasizes that “this book takes a new look at Tom Stoppard’s drama, fiction, and...