Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard is said to have transcended the influence of Samuel Beckett, and found his true precursor in Oscar Wilde. Stoppard’s work is studied in this edition of Bloom’s Major Dramatists. Studied works Rosencrantze and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia, and The Invention of Love. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles present the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature reflecting a variety of schools of criticism. Texts also contain critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author’s life, and an index, and an introductory essay by Bloom.