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In the section on Travesties, Carr is mentioned solely as the plays narrator. He was in fact real and also appears very briefly in Joyce's Ulysses.
What's the evidence for 'co-opted into Outrapo', whatever that is? DJ Clayworth 21:39, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
OK. I get it. For encyclopaedic purposes it would be nice to know whether Tom Stoppard knows that he is a member of Outrapo.
DJ Clayworth 14:36, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I know there's a good reason that Stoppard is considered British. (I don't know what it is, but) oughtn't it be mentioned? Omphaloscope » talk 23:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
From the article he was British by residence and adoption from an early age. Singapore would have been British when he arrived there at age 2, and when his mother married he would presumably become British. What else would you suggest, given that he left his birth country age two? DJ Clayworth 01:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Sheer pedantry I know but hey ho: Around the time of Doggs Hamlet was also somthing called Doggs Our Pet.... a short play written for the Doggs Troupe company (of which it is an anagram)
The early bbc radio writing included a lot of work on the world service on a series based around the events in a young arab mans life and experiences in london....the series was primarily aimed at people trying to learn English.
Does anyone know of a good link for available performances? Woefully few of his early plays are available on DVD, and a quick search didn't turn up any radio plays available on CD. But I may be missing something; searching for DVD's under his name at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk missed a lot, and both are even worse at searching for spoken word CD's. The best I've been able to find is an Amazon list of DVD's.
FlashSheridan 05:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Anyone have any idea about locating this? Anthony Krupp ( talk) 15:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Getting a copy of an unused draft of a movie script? Wouldn't that be very hard short of espionage? DJ Clayworth ( talk) 14:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Squaring the Circle, a teleplay written by Stoppard in the 80's, is missing from the list of works. Concerned with the Polish Solidarity Movement (Polish: Solidarność), Squaring the Circle is an inventive treatment of history through the differing perspectives of multiple participants. While I've written an undergraduate paper on the subject, I am not qualified to edit the article on this work. I's like to request it's addition by someone more qualified. Panzerama ( talk) 22:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
The link to Dolphin School point on new (founded in 1970) and small school in Berkshire, obviously not the school Stoppard attended in 1946 which is in Nottinghamshire. Avihu ( talk) 20:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I think the potted descriptions of the plays don't fit with the article. They seem like original and POV synopsis. Without exception each play has its own article. Let's cut. Would you agree? Spanglej ( talk) 01:30, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I've cut the extensive prose descriptions of the works and added translation detail. Most are wikilinked. Spanglej ( talk) 03:55, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
A recent edit admits Stoppard to the ranks of the " ennobled". Isn't Baron the minimum entitlement to qualify as a noble, rather than the " knighthood" he actually holds? Proposing RV. -- Old Moonraker ( talk) 22:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica states that Stoppard is " a Czech-born British playwright". In interview he identifies as British; he left Czechoslovakia when he was two. Time and Britannica are strong sources. So, if anything, his nationality should be entered as British. Info boxes most often do not get these subtleties across, which is why they are often not encouraged for BLPs. I am removing the 'nationality' line in the box. His early history is well explored in the lead and body of the article. If there is disagreement, please discuss here. Span ( talk) 23:04, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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The article says, "Just before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the town's patron, Tomáš Baťa, helped re-post his Jewish employees, mostly physicians, to various branches of his firm all over the world."
That was in 1939.
But the page on Tomáš Baťa says he died in 1931, and therefore could not have saved Jews in 1939.
It's just been announced that Tom Stoppard will be writing a stageplay adaptation for Disney, to premiere in London. Since there were four copyright infringement suits against the movie, how can Stoppard write a play without infringing copyright? The movie was derived primarily from three sources: "The Dark Lady", "As You Might Like It" and "No Bed for Bacon". "As You Might Like It" was an original stageplay in itself. 66.122.183.251 ( talk) 13:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
This is listed in the section on radio plays, but it goes on to say it was first performed on British television. Which is it?
There was a reference to Stoppard's being inspired by seeing Trevor Nunn's production of Gorki's Summerfolk to write more openly emotional drama, which then lists The Real Thing (1982), Arcadia (1993) and The Invention of Love (1997). Nunn's production of Summerfolk was 1999. I have removed the error. Stoppard was presumably inspired to write his Russian trilogy by that production. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.245.243 ( talk) 14:07, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
But how can Stoppard have been inspired to write something in 1982, 1993 and 1997 by a production which happened in 1999? It's a nonsense. What Stoppard is talking about in that section of the interview is his being inspired by the Nunn Summerfolk to write his Russian trilogy which was presented at the National in 2002.
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Tom Stoppard doesn't believe that all British people are equal under our flag, but he believes that monarchs selected by the Christian God (not other God even we Brits believe or not in many versions of Her) are of pure Aryan blood, and that fact is eternal. If you believe that some people are superior for some metamagical neo-Hebrew religion we call Christianity, then you are a Sir, and Sir means liked by the unaware masses like Hitler, for Racist Aryans are loved for their style when they deceive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:410E:5800:C5DB:BD26:452E:CB3 ( talk) 01:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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I've heard his last name pronounced a few different ways. I tried to look up the correct pronunciation and found line an an article from The New York Times:
If one needs a sign of Stoppard's own inner balance, consider the pronunciation of his name. It is STOP-PARD, with the accent on both syllables.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/01/magazine/the-real-tom-stoppard.html
Not sure how to best include this sort of info, but I feel info on the pronunciation ought to be included in some way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paco2718 ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
His age based on the years of his fathers death in the early life section don’t add up 142.126.185.19 ( talk) 22:52, 27 July 2022 (UTC)