Stoppard
Stoppard refers to Tom Stoppard, the British playwright known for intellectually dazzling, linguistically playful works like *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* and *Arcadia*.
His name sometimes appears as shorthand for a certain theatrical style—witty, erudite, philosophically curious: The dialogue had a Stoppard-like quality, all wordplay and big ideas.
Author of stage dramas
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- screenwriterAuthor of film scripts
- scriptwriterAuthor of film dialogue
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
stagecraft · monologue · Broadway · director · rehearsal · ensemble · repertory · revival
Mental creations or plans
- eruditionExtensive scholarly knowledge
- academiaHigher education community
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
- WildeAnglo-Irish family name
Lenin · Byron · chaos theory · Fermat · thermodynamics · classical · knowledge · scholarship
Verbal wit techniques
- witClever, inventive humor
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
- pasticheImitative artistic tribute
- cerebralRelating to intellect
erudite · allusive · layered · dazzling · verbosity · banter · repartee · puns
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- KafkaesqueOppressively absurd and labyrinthine
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- farceAbsurd, laughable situation
irony · satire · incongruity · whimsical · tragicomedy · chaos · illogical · Ionesco
Study of fundamental truths
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- historyRecord of past events
- politicsGovernmental power struggles
love · art · science · time · memory · identity · dissent · Czechoslovakia
playwright
Author of stage dramas
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- screenwriterAuthor of film scripts
- scriptwriterAuthor of film dialogue
dialogue · stagecraft · monologue · Broadway · director · rehearsal · ensemble · repertory · revival · premiere
Arcadia
Greek region or paradise
- JumpersTeleporting people, or their film
ideas
Mental creations or plans
- eruditionExtensive scholarly knowledge
- academiaHigher education community
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
Wilde · Lenin · Byron · chaos theory · Fermat · thermodynamics · classical · knowledge · scholarship · research
wordplay
Verbal wit techniques
cerebral · erudite · allusive · layered · dazzling · verbosity · banter · repartee · puns · linguistic
Beckett
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- KafkaesqueOppressively absurd and labyrinthine
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
farce · irony · satire · incongruity · whimsical · tragicomedy · chaos · illogical · Ionesco · Pinter
philosophy
Study of fundamental truths
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- historyRecord of past events
politics · love · art · science · time · memory · identity · dissent · Czechoslovakia · émigré
Stoppardminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
David Mamet · Eugene O'Neill · Arthur Miller · kitchen sink realism · social realism
StoppardBertolt Brecht