The Invention of Love

Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard's new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".

About the author

Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, Travesties, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade’s End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina.

Summary

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman’s youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student named Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the elder Housman confronts the younger version of himself and his memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson –– the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Stoppard, Stoppard Tom
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.1998
• EAN: 9780802135810
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3581-0
• No. of pages: 102
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Tom Stoppard; Tom Stoppard
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; London, London, Greater London, c 1930 to c 1939, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Plays, Playscripts, Modern & contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), CULTURAL HERITAGE / British