Tom Stoppard Books In Order

Coast of Utopia Books In Order

  1. Voyage (2002)
  2. Shipwreck (2002)
  3. Salvage (2002)

Novels

  1. Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon (1966)

Collections

  1. Albert’s Bridge / If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank (1969)
  2. The Real Inspector Hound / After Magritte (1969)
  3. Dirty Linen / New-Found-land (1976)
  4. Albert’s Bridge and Other Plays (1977)
  5. Dogg’s Hamlet / Cahoot’s Macbeth (1979)
  6. The Dog It Was That Died and Other Plays (1983)
  7. Four Plays for Radio (1984)
  8. Every Good Boy Deserves Favor / Professional Foul (1988)
  9. The Television Plays, 1965-84 (1993)
  10. Tom Stoppard Plays: Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, After Magritte (1996)
  11. Tom Stoppard Plays (1997)
  12. Tom Stoppard Plays 3: (1998)
  13. The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays (1998)
  14. Tom Stoppard Plays: Dalliance, Undiscovered Country, Rough Crossing, On the Razzle (1999)
  15. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia (2000)

Plays

  1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967)
  2. Enter a Free Man (1968)
  3. The Real Inspector Hound (1968)
  4. Albert’s Bridge (1969)
  5. If you’re Glad I’ll be Frank (1969)
  6. A Separate Peace (1969)
  7. After Magritte (1971)
  8. Jumpers (1972)
  9. Artist Descending a Staircase (1973)
  10. Travesties (1975)
  11. Dirty Linen (1976)
  12. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977)
  13. The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1978)
  14. Night and Day (1978)
  15. Undiscovered Country (1980)
  16. On the Razzle (1981)
  17. The Real Thing (1982)
  18. Squaring the Circle (1984)
  19. Rough Crossing (1985)
  20. Dalliance (1986)
  21. Hapgood (1988)
  22. In the Native State (1991)
  23. The Boundary (1991)
  24. Arcadia (1993)
  25. The Plays for Radio, 1964-91 (1994)
  26. Indian Ink (1995)
  27. The Invention of Love (1997)
  28. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  29. Pirandello’s Henry IV (2004)
  30. Rock ‘n’ Roll (2006)
  31. Parade’s End (2012)
  32. The Hard Problem (2015)
  33. The Seagull (2018)
  34. Leopoldstadt (2020)
  35. The Radio Plays (2021)

Non fiction

  1. In Conversation (1997)
  2. Conversations with Stoppard (2000)

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Tom Stoppard Books Overview

Voyage

The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard’s long awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the mas*ses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman’s son and the first self proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation in this chronicle of romantics and revolutionaries caught up in a struggle for political freedom in an age of emperors.

Shipwreck

Shipwreck is the second part of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s long awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the mas*ses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman’s son and the first self proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation.

Salvage

Salvage is the third part of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s long awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the mas*ses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman’s son and the first self proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation.

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

Tom Stoppard’s first novel, originally published in 1966 just before the premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is an uproarious fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach; Malquist’s Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket; a couple of cowboys, one being named Jasper Jones; a lion who’s banned from the Ritz; an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ; and three irresistible women.

Tom Stoppard Plays: Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, After Magritte

A collection of Tom Stoppard plays which reflect a combination of the ‘frivolous’ and the ‘serious’ aspects of his talent.

Tom Stoppard Plays

Plays Two:
The Dissolution of Dominic Boot
‘M’ is for Moon Among Other Things
If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank
Albert’s Bridge
Where Are They Now?
Artist Descending a Staircase
The Dog It Was That Died
In the Native State

Introduced by the author, this second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, written between 1964 and 1991. These plays reflect the full range of Stoppard’s gifts as well as his craftsmanship and versatility. His work for radio complements and sometimes prefigures his work for the stage.

Included in this volume is In the Native State, which became the stage play Indian Ink.

Albert’s Bridge won the Italia Prize and In the Native State won a Sony Award.

Tom Stoppard Plays 3:

Plays Three:A Separate PeaceTeethAnother Moon Called EarthNeutral GroundProfessional FoulSquaring the CircleIntroduced by the author, this third collection of plays written by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard’s writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly and timely Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the pieces came to be written and the circumstances of their original production.

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays

Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, and Cahoot’s Macbeth.

Tom Stoppard Plays: Dalliance, Undiscovered Country, Rough Crossing, On the Razzle

DallianceUndiscovered CountryRough CrossingOn the RazzleThe SeagullThis fourth volume of Tom Stoppard’s work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler Dalliance and Undiscovered Country, Ferenc Molnar Rough Crossing, a classic farce set aboard an ocean liner, Johann Nestroy On the Razzle, a mad chase through Vienna, and Anton Chekhov The Seagull, the classic Russian country tale. According to The Times of London, ‘Adaptation in Stoppard’s terms means finding a sympathetic text and using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind.’ In adapting these plays some classics, some nearly forgotten for the modern stage, Tom Stoppard has added his own unique elements of dazzling wit and verbal brilliance, hilarious parody and cutting satire, to create works that stand as exceptional works of theater that do not belong to any one age.

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia

For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England’s most admired dramatists. And for this edition of Faber Critical Guides, Jim Hunter examines four of Stoppard’s finest works in the context of his entire oeuvre. Hunter writes, ‘Stoppard’s plays present a unique interplay between fun today and the most basic and serious challenges to human understanding. He writes jokes and comic routines; but at the same time he is also writing about moral responsibility, about goodness, and about our scientific, mathematical, or philosophical understanding of reality.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Comedy / 14m, 2f, 12 extras, 6 musicians / Unit set w. platforms, cyc, drops. Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the college chums of Hamlet and their story is what happened behind the scenes in Shakespeare’s play. What were they doing there in Elsinore anyway? ‘I don’t know; we were sent for.’ They are not only anti agents, but also anti sympathy, anti identification, and in fact anti persons, which is uniquely demonstrated by their having such a hard time recollecting which of them goes by what name. The Players come and go; Prince Hamlet comes through reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad, escapes death; and in turn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their ‘only exit is death.’ ‘Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air.’ The New York Times ‘A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy.’ The New York Daily News

The Real Inspector Hound

This volume comprises the plays ‘The Real Inspector Hound‘, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet’, ‘Cahoot’s Macbeth’ and ‘After Magritte’.

Jumpers

Murder, marriage and metaphysics the three elements that link the bizarre series of events in Tom Stoppard’s high spirited comedy, Jumpers. The protagonists include George Moore, an aging professor of moral philosophy whose quest to compose a lecture on Man Good, Bad or Indifferent is put on hold while he ponders the existence of his sock; his youthful wife Dotty, a former musical star on a downward spiral whose charm may explain the corpse in the next room; George s specially trained hare, Thumper; and a chorus of poorly trained gymnasts whose exploits set the stage for this topsy turvy world.

Travesties

Travesties was born out of Stoppard’s noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century’s most crucial revolutionaries James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.

Night and Day

Plays Five:ArcadiaThe Real ThingNight & Day; Indian Ink; Hapgood This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard’s plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. Arcadia received the Evening Standard, the Oliver, and the Critics Awards and The Real Thing won a Tony Award.

The Real Thing

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is The Real Thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it The Real Thing?In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illuminate the nature and the mystery of love, creating a multi toned play that challenges the mind while searching out the innermost secrets of the heart.

Hapgood

With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that spins an end of the cold war tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light David Richards, The New York Times. It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayals doubles and triples and possibly quadruples continues to multiply.

Arcadia

This is Tom Stoppard’s award winning play, set in Derbyshire. The orderly classicism of Lady Croom’s Capability Brown grounds are being turned into picturesque romantic chaos, as fashion dictates, by landscape architect ‘Culpability Noakes’. In a Regency room overlooking the work is Lady Croom’s brilliant adolescent daughter Thomasina Coverly, with her handsome, clever tutor Septimus Hodge. Their maths lesson is disturbed by, among others, the imperious, amorous Lady Croom and Ezra Chater, a cuckold and minor poet, determined on satisfaction. One hundred and eighty years later, in the same room, a corresponding group, comprising a mathematician, a biographer/historian, and a vulgar academic, try to unravel the events of 1809 with spectacularly wrong results.

The Plays for Radio, 1964-91

The plays in this collection include ‘The Dissolution of Dominic Boot’, ”M’ is for Moon Among Other Things’, ‘If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank’, ‘Albert’s Bridge’, ‘Where Are They Now?’, ‘Artist Descending a Staircase’, ‘The Dog it Was That Died’ and ‘In the Native State’.

Indian Ink

Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling in India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist’s son visits Flor’as sister in London while her would be biographer is following a cold trail in India. The alternation of place and period in Tom Stoppard’s new play based on his radio play In The Native State makes for a rich and moving exploration of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of history, the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe.

The Invention of Love

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.

Shakespeare in Love

The screenplay to the critically acclaimed film which New York Newsday called one of the funniest, most enchanting, most romantic, and best written tales ever spun from the vast legend of Shakespeare. Marc Norman and renowned dramatist, Tom Stoppard have created the best screenplay of the year according to the Golden Globes and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Pirandello’s Henry IV

In this meeting of two of the twentieth century’s greatest playwrights, Tom Stoppard has reinvigorated Luigi Pirandello’s masterpiece of madness and sanity. After a fall from his horse, an Italian aristocrat believes he is the obscure medieval German emperor Henry IV. After twenty years of living this royal illusion, his beloved appears with a noted psychiatrist to shock the madman back to sanity. Their efforts expose that for the past twelve years the nobleman has in fact been sane. With his mask of madness removed, the aristocrat launches an offensive to deflect their unwanted attention. While Pirandello’s characters race linguistically about in Stoppardian dervishes, battling for the upper hand and the greatest laughs one question emerges: What constitutes sanity?

Rock ‘n’ Roll

Rock n Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan’s volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free spirited daughter and his cancer stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.

In Conversation

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