When Travesties appeared on the London stage in 1974, it soon reinforced Tom
Stoppard's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and clever
playwrights. The play focuses on the fictional meeting of three important ...
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THE CAPITAL TIMES Saturday , March 10 , 1984 - 8 Madison , Wisconsin
Stoppard ' s ' Travesties ' terse but terrific On Stage By BRIAN RIESELMAN
Special to The Capital Times " Travesties , " presented by Universily Theatre ,
takes its ...
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157 - 8 for this and other travesties of Richard III . William Mitchell , a popular
burlesque actor , had great success in Richard Number Three , and G . C . D .
Odell records that ' as long as Mitchell remained on the stage , Richard No . III
was one ...
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... a place where venereal diseases may be treated and thus mitigate the spread
of these diseases ? A great many earnest physicians and laymen are beginning
to demand that indigent venereal cases be taken 86 SOCIAL TRAVESTIES AND
...
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Travesties. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Jumpers were both
award- winning successes at the National Theatre, and through them Stoppard
was recognized for his linguistic and theatrical virtuosity. His reputation was that
of a ...
Author: John Fleming
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Category: Literary Criticism
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Chapter 5 PARNASSIAN PARSING I : BURTONIAN ANALYSIS The following
chapters concentrate on Travesties , and we make use of our model presented in
the previous chapters for analysing Travesties . This chapter provides a little ...
Author: Peter K. W. Tan
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971691825
Category: Literary Criticism
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26 Stoppard , Travesties , p . 26 . 27 Ellmann , p . 744 . 28 Stoppard , Travesties ,
p . 64 . 29 Ellmann , p . 744 . 30 Stoppard , Travesties , p . 29 . 31 Stoppard ,
Travesties , p . 91 . 32 Stoppard , Travesties , p . 92 . 33 Stoppard , Travesties , p .
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As with his more famous play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in
Travesties (1974) Stoppard once again employs a canonical text to serve as the
template for his own work, only in this case his play isn't set so much in the space
...
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Shakespearean travesties formed a standard part of nineteenth-century theatre's
repertory and were performed by notable actors such as W. T. Mitchell, John
Holland, and John Brougham. Titles of these travesties include Much Ado About
a ...
Author: Yvonne Shafer
Publisher: Universitat de València
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7 TOBY ZINMAN Travesties, Night and Day, The Real Thing Stoppard thinks of
himself as “quite an eclectic writer. I... finish a piece of work and by the time I'm
talking about it I'm already fascinated with something none of you knows about.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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... by the American Conservatory Theater on 27 March 1977 , the playwright
responded to questions about Jumpers , Dirty Linen , and Travesties , about
influences on his work , his techniques of writing , and his advice for a young
writer .
Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472065610
Category: Performing Arts
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