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The Invention of Love
"Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit." --Variety
It is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last--yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger self from the vantage of death, Housman thinks back to the man he loved, who could not return his feelings, and considers the Oxford of his youth, suffused with the flamboyant influence of the Wildean Aesthetic movement and the restrictions of High Victorian morality.
Winner of the Evening Standard's Best Play Award, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination as if a dream, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and the passion displaced into poetry.
Book Details
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: Aug 10th, 1998
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0802
- Dimensions: 8.28in - 5.56in - 0.35in - 0.31lb
- EAN: 9780802135810
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Theater - Playwriting
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.
More books by Tom Stoppard
What people are saying
Adrian McKinty is a crime and mystery writer.
@alexlarman @AEHousmanAlarm I wonder if the rot began to set in for Housman after that devastating George Orwell attack in Inside The Whale and then maybe the wound started to heal after Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love?
Geeking out about theatre. Visit the TKTS booths in Times Square or Lincoln Center for same-day & next-day discount tickets! 🎭 Powered by @TDFNYC.
Tom Stoppard’s The Invention Of Love starring Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre 22 years ago today! @iammireilleenos @DavidKHarbour @iDavidTurner @LCTheater ^Ricky
LCT is a non-profit theater producing shows on & off Broadway.
Celebrating Pride! 🌈 LCT celebrates this month of #Pride by highlighting some of the extraordinary LGBTQIA stories seen on our stages over the years. This week, we look back at Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (2001), featuring Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard. https://t.co/5jlV1vz9Nn
Praise for this book
Praise for The Invention of Love:
"So beautifully constructed that the playwright seems to be discovering his play only one jump ahead of the audience. It has that sense of surprise and wonder."--New York Times
"Some of the finest, most
passionate, and most disarmingly brilliant dramatic writing that he has given us."--Financial Times
"A magical memory play which meanders like an elaborate dream . . . The most emotionally powerful and enthralling play of his career. Never before has [Stoppard] written with such exciting eloquence."--Evening Standard
"Tom Stoppard at his best; manipulative, inquisitive, irresistible . . . A master at work." --Sunday Times (UK)
What people are saying
Adrian McKinty is a crime and mystery writer.
@alexlarman @AEHousmanAlarm I wonder if the rot began to set in for Housman after that devastating George Orwell attack in Inside The Whale and then maybe the wound started to heal after Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love?
Geeking out about theatre. Visit the TKTS booths in Times Square or Lincoln Center for same-day & next-day discount tickets! 🎭 Powered by @TDFNYC.
Tom Stoppard’s The Invention Of Love starring Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre 22 years ago today! @iammireilleenos @DavidKHarbour @iDavidTurner @LCTheater ^Ricky