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Category: Books (Drama)
Author: Stoppard, Tom
Author: Stoppard, Tom
ISBN-10: 0802150896
ISBN-10: 0802150896
ISBN-13: 9780802150899
ISBN-13: 9780802150899
Publisher: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages: 96
Pages: 96
Binding: Paperback
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 01-May-1994
Pub Date: 01-May-1994
SKU: 0802150896-11-MING
SKU: 0802150896-11-MING
Item ID: 100139238
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Travestieswas 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.

Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works asRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves a Favor, Arcadia, Jumpers, The Real Thing,andThe Invention of Love.

Praise forTravesties:

Mind-bending splendor . . . a prismatic text . . . The hilarity comes fast and frequent throughout.New York Times(2016)

[A] brilliantly zany, effervescently erudite comedy about writers, artists, and revolutionaries holed up in neutral Zurich during the First World War . . . Stoppard crafts what is at once a hilarious riff onThe Importance of Being Earnestand a playful, poignant memory play.New York

A gushing waterfall of wordplay, a fine-tuned literary torrent that only begins by covering love, sex, war, memory, and Marxism. Also James Joyce, Dada, the fine art of mens tailoring, andThe Importance of Being Earnest.Entertainment Weekly

Set during World War I in Zurich, the famously neutral city that in 1917 counted among its residents author James Joyce, revolutionist Vladimir Lenin and poet Tristan Tzara, a founder of the freethinking artistic movement known as Dada. Only a playwright as brilliantly inventive as Stopls(