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title: "Arcadia"
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# Arcadia

**Brand:** tom stoppard
**Price:** € 15.14
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## Customer Reviews

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    For stars only
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020*

For this to work on stage, it would need extraordinarily talented cast and crew. On the page, it's very dull and it would be disastrous for amateurs.

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    ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard
  

*by N***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014*

Arcadia is a play that takes place at Sidley Park, a stately country home in Derbyshire. The play shifts back and forth between the early 19th century and modern day Sidley Park.  The action in both time periods takes place in a bare room with a large table.In the 19th century, Thomasina, the daughter of the house, is working with her tutor, Septimus Hodge; there are books and Hodge’s tortoise.  In the modern time, Hannah Jarvis, an author, is working on a book about the history of the gardens – or, more precisely, about the hermit-genius who lived in the 19th century gardens like a “garden ornament” or “pottery gnome”.  She is joined by, among others, Valentine, a son of the house, and his tortoise. In each time period, people come and go and dramas unfold. But the room and table remain constant. As the play proceeds, everything from both time periods remains on the table. The table and its contents are period neutral, and, by the end of the play, the table has become quite cluttered with objects.There are striking parallels between the two time periods. Early on, questioning her tutor whether God is a Newtonian, Thomasina asks “[a]m I the first person to have thought of this?” (p. 9).  In the modern time, Chloe asks her brother “Valentine, do you think I’m the first person to think of this?” (p. 77). There is humor. Valentine explains to Hannah how her tea is getting cold – by itself. “Your tea will end up at room temperature. What’s happening to your tea is happening to everything everywhere….It’ll take a while but we’re all going to end up at room temperature.” (p. 82). The modern day dramas involve the 19th century dramas – an attempt to sort out the past with meager historical evidence. There is poetry and duels; parks and a hermitage; heat exchange and Lord Byron. And, there is Entropy. As the play progresses, so does the chaos. Toward the end of the play, the distinct time periods begin to bleed into one another. They proceed at the same time and intertwine. Chaos ensues. The result is a fascinating, intellectual drama. Arcadia is a great read, and I hope one day to see it performed.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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    Many Pleasures from Such a Well-Done, Well-Interweaved Variety of Topics and Characters
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2006*

Another reviewer began the review with this: "Arcadia is one of the most touching and enlightening works of literature I have ever read. The interweaving of ideas from physics, fractals, literature, architecture, history, psychology and many other fields of knowledge hidden in the play is just perfect."  I agree with the sentiment.  I adored the live play; saw it twice!  I also read the play afterwards -- now twice, too.  The reviewer I quoted, though, got bogged down later in the review of whether Stoppard is brilliant enough as Einstein or is just showing off.  The play is not a Philosophical Inquiry of Great Rigor.  The ideas, to me anyway, are like the proverbial unicorn story:  see one (wow! is it real?; a couple folks see it: super-wow; but once everyone sees it:  "so what?  it's a horse with a horn in its head.").  The delight for me was not in the "novel" ideas, but in the way in which they are used as another means of entertainment: much as characters in an Eric Rohmer (French) Film might discuss Kant's Synthetic A Priori.  The characters are IMMENSELY entertaining and that they discuss philosophy or math just adds to what is entertaining about them -- specifically it adds variety.  So you have the usual drama subjects, but more too.  The main thing then is this:  ALL is WONDERFULLY done and you derive your pleasure from all the very well-done VARIETY of fun and drama and topics ALL NICELY WOVEN TOGETHER, not hodge-podged at all.

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