Early reviewers of�Arcadia's initial run remarked that Tom Stoppard like the�Tin Man�in�The Wizard of Oz had at long last found his heart After almost three decades of plays that some saw more as intellectual exercises than heartfelt drama Stoppard's first success was with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are a play that retells�Hamlet�from the point of view of its two most insignificant characters lots of commentators felt that Stoppard was finally getting his emotional groove on While his subsequent plays have been successful both in London and on Broadway�Arcadia�and good old�Rosencrantz and Guildenstern�remain the plays for which Stoppard is best known You may have also heard of a few films that he contributed to�Shakespeare in Love�and�Brazil
If you want to stump your teacher ask her to sum up�Arcadia�in ten words or less Or if you want to impress her figure out a clever way to do it yourself The wide range of topics in�Tom Stoppard�'s�Arcadia�has made it a favorite for college freshmanyear readalongs as a book that ideally can appeal to anyone from emo poets to science nerds
Arcadia�is made of paper and we're not just talking about the book you have in your hand Notes books essays drags diaries without these material leftovers from a bygone age it seems there wouldn't be much to�Arcadia As Bernard says of his historical predecessors at Sidley Park They wrote they scribbled they put it on paper It was their employment Their diversion Paper is what they had Today however the idea of using colored water to inscribe your thoughts on sheets of pressed wood pulp is starting to seem well quaint In the age of the Internet is�Arcadia's attention to historyonpaper still relevant
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Of course Noakes reports this interesting fact to Mr Chater whose note requesting a duel interrupts the conversation Thomasina and Septimus are having about math time and will Chater wants a duel with Septimus to defend his wife's honor but Septimus manages to get him to believe that Mrs Chater slept with Septimus only to ensure that he would write a good review of Mr Chater's latest poem Chater is so pleased with this take on the affair that he writes a grateful inscription in Septimus's copy of his book Lady Croom enters with the hapless Mr Noakes and her brother Captain Brice Their discussion of the gazebo leads Septimus to think that they too are aware of his fling with Mrs Chater However it turns out Lady Croom is more concerned with the fate of her garden which Mr Noakes is ripping up to turn into something that looks like a�Draculamovie Noakes has made a series of sketches in a book detailing what he wants the garden to look like Thomasina makes her own addition to this book a drag of a hermit to go with the proposed hermitage which is both a place where hermits live and more generally a hideaway
The action shifts to the present day in the same place the same room even Living in the house are the current Lord and Lady Croom the latter of whom is still obsessed with gardening and their ren mathematician Valentine boycrazy Chlo and silent Gus They also have a visitor a scholar named Hannah Jarvis who is doing research for a book about the garden and its hermit
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