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When the National Theatre needed a last-minute substitute for a canceled production of As You Like It, Kenneth Tynan decided to stage Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a work by an unfamiliar author that had received discouraging notices from provincial critics at its Edinburgh Festival debut. mehr anzeigen Of course, the play, when it opened in April 1967, met with universal acclaim. In New York the next year, it was chosen best play by the Drama Critics Circle. In such an unlikely way, Tom Stoppard came to light. Born in Czechoslovakia, a country he left (for Singapore) when he was an infant, he began his literary career as a journalist in Bristol, where play reviewing led to playwriting. After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard's reputation suffered through the production of a number of minor works, whose intellectual preoccupations were shrugged off by reviewers: Enter a Free Man (1968; "an adolescent twinge of a play," N.Y. Times), The Real Inspector Hound (1968; "lightweight," N.Y. Times), and After Magritte. But in the 1970s, the initial enthusiasms aroused by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were more than vindicated by the production of two full-length plays, Jumpers (1974) and the antiwar play Travesties (1975), whose immense verbal and theatrical inventiveness made them absolute successes on both sides of the Atlantic. Stoppard's method from the start has been to contrive explanations for highly unlikely encounters---of objects (the ironing board, old lady, and bowler hat of After Magritte), characters (Joyce, Lenin, and Tzara in Travesties), and even plays (Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, and The Real Thing, 1982). In the 1970s, Tynan called for Stoppard---as a Czech and as an artist---to engage himself politically. But although political subjects have since found their way into pieces from Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (1977) to Squaring the Circle (1985), politics and art seem to have become just two more of the playwright's irreconcilables, which meet, but never join, in the logical frames of his comedy. The presence of political material---such as the Lenin sections that nearly ruin the second part of Travesties---has occasionally strained the structure of the plays. But in The Real Thing Stoppard is comfortable enough with the satire on art and activism to bring a third subject, love, into the mix. Stoppard has acknowledged his Eastern European heritage nonpolitically, in a series of adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (see Vol. 2), Johann Nestroy, and Ferenc Molnar. (Bowker Author Biography) Tom Stoppard is the author of many plays, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, and The Invention of Love. He lives in London. (Publisher Provided) weniger anzeigen
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(dut) The author was born as Tomas Straussler. After the death of his father, his mother married the Brittish Major Stoppard, and Tom since accepted his name.

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Straussler, Tomas
Stoppard, Tom
Andere Namen
Boot, William
Geburtstag
1937-07-03
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
UK
Geburtsort
Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Wohnorte
Zlín, Czechoslovakia (birth)
Singapore
Darjeeling, India
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ausbildung
Mount Hermon School
Dolphin School, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Pocklington School, Yorkshire, England, UK
Berufe
Journalist
Dramatiker
Bühnenautor
Ãœbersetzer
Beziehungen
Stoppard, Miriam (wife|divorced)
Organisationen
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2000)
Western Daily Press (reporter ∙ critic)
Bristol Evening World (feature writer ∙ humor columnist ∙ drama critic)
BBC Radio
Standpoint
Shakespeare Schools Festival (Zeige alle 10)
Index on Censorship
Amnesty International
Committee Against Psychiatric Abuse
The London Library (president)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Order of Merit (2000)
Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1978)
Knight Bachelor (1997)
Royal Society of Literature (1972)
PEN Pinter prize (2013)
David Cohen Prize (2017) (Zeige alle 20)
John Whiting Award
Honorary Fellow, British Academy (2017)
PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award (2015)
America Award in Literature (2017)
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2013)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1999)
Honorary doctorate, Yale University (2000)
Honorary degree, Cambridge University (2000)
Honorary Patronage, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin
The London Library (2002)
Tony Award (5x)
Laurence Olivier Award
Academy Award (1999)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (2017)
Agent
Anthony Jones (PFD)
Kurzbiographie
Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Straussler to a Jewish family in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. With their parents Eugen Straussler, a doctor employed by the Bata shoe company, and Martha Becková, he and his brother fled the country in 1939 to escape Nazi occupation. \The family went to Singapore, where Bata had a factory. Tom, his mother and brother fled to Australia in 1941. Tom spent three years in a boarding school in Darjeeling, India. In 1945, his mother married Kenneth Stoppard. Tom attended the Dolphin School in Nottinghamshire, and later Pocklington School in Yorkshire. He left school at age 17 and began working as a journalist for the Western Daily Press in Bristol. IHe also wrote short radio plays and in 1960, moved to London and launched himself as a playwright with A Walk on the Water, later re-titled Enter a Free Man.
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
The author was born as Tomas Straussler. After the death of his father, his mother married the Brittish Major Stoppard, and Tom since accepted his name.

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Der Oscar-Gewinner Shakespeare in Love, eine der zärtlichsten und intelligentesten romantischen Komödien der 90er Jahre, ist so randvoll gefüllt mit bezauberndem Wohlwollen, strahlender Romantik, bissigen Dialogen und geradezu teuflischer Klugheit, dass man ihm absolut nicht widerstehen kann. Auf wunderbar ironische Art zeichnet der Film zu Beginn neben dem überreizten Kampf des jungen Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) mit seiner Schreibblockade auch die Bemühungen des Theaterbesitzers Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush, so gut wie nur selten) nach, Williams neueste Komödie "Romeo und Ethel, die Piratentochter" auf die Bühne zu bringen. Doch als die unglaublich schöne Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) sich als junger Mann verkleidet ein Vorsprechen für die eigentlich rein männliche Schauspieltruppe (zu Shakespeares Zeiten wurden auch alle Frauen- und Mädchenrollen von Männern verkörpert) erschleicht und beides erobert, die Rolle des Romeo und nach vielen Missverständnissen das Herz des Stückeschreibers, tritt die gagreiche Komödie zugunsten einer hinreißenden Romanze in den Hintergrund. Schon bald wird aus Shakespeares Piratenkomödie das schöne, tragische Stück Romeo und Julia, das nun den Schmerz und die Ekstase von Williams und Violas Liebesbeziehung widerspiegelt -- er ist verheiratet und sie soll in nächster Zukunft den schmierigen Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) heiraten.
Die Art, in der die mit dem Oscar ausgezeichneten Drehbuchautoren Marc Norman und Tom Stoppard, der als Dramatiker durch seine Hamlet-Variation Rosencrantz und Güldenstern sind tot auch bei uns bekannt geworden ist, ihre Geschichte in dem von Romeo und Julia (und zusätzlich noch von Was ihr wollt oder Zwölfte Nacht) gesteckten Rahmen entfalten, ist nichts anderes als brillant. Man bräuchte einen Shakespeare-Forscher, um die unzähligen Parallelen, die oft direkt zitierten Dialoge, die Entwicklungen der Handlung und die thematischen Anleihen vollständig herauszufiltern. Aber, und das überrascht am meisten, Norman und Stoppard haben bei ihrer Achterbahnfahrt durch das Leben und Werk Shakespeares nicht vergessen, den Zuschauer auch einfach zu unterhalten.

Der Regisseur John Madden (Ihre Majestät: Mrs. Brown) herrscht über sein riesiges Ensemble mit so ausgelassener Energie, dass überall im Film kleine Juwelen zu entdecken sind, unter anderem auch Judi Denchs achtminütiger, Oscar-prämierter Auftritt als wahrhaft königliche Königin Elisabeth. Aber der eigentliche Schlüssel zum Erfolg von Shakespeare in Love liegt in den Händen seiner beiden Stars. Fiennes, der unbegreiflicherweise bei der Oscar-Verleihung übergangen wurde, ist ein kühner, aufrichtiger William Shakespeare. Und was die als beste Hauptdarstellerin ausgezeichnete Gwyneth Paltrow betrifft: Nun, nichts, was sie bisher gemacht hatte, konnte die Zuschauer darauf vorbereiten, wie wunderbar sie hier ist. Atemberaubend schön, voll wilder Intelligenz, willensstark und von Liebe völlig ergriffen -- all das ist sie hier und das macht ihre Leistung in mehr als nur einer Hinsicht eines Shakespeares würdig. Am Ende des Films wird Ihr Herz ganz und gar von ihm erobert sein -- und Sie werden Ihre Shakespeare-Kenntnisse mit neu gefundener Begeisterung auffrischen. --Mark Englehart
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