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On 29 November, Sir Tom Stoppard, Oskara's winner, died in the English county of Dorset for the script for the film "Love Shakespeare", author of the revisionist play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Dead", about the secondary heroes of Hamlet, and perhaps the most famous contemporary dramatist. Stopard was known and loved, including in Russia, especially since he was interested in Russian culture: among the most important texts, "Bereg Utopia", a …
He had received several awards for his plays, notably for "Rencrantz and Guildenstern died", but also an Oscar for the screenplay of "Shakespeare in Love". He died on November 29, at 88 years old.
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
“Tom Stoppard is dead.” For anyone who cares for the theater, the English language, and especially for those of us who knew him, these words are as unthinkable as they are hard to bear. How can such a force of nature, such a generosity of spirit, such a voice of sanity, have fallen silent? And yet he has gone. To the end, his body emaciated by cancer, he was still the old Tom: self-deprecating but full of ideas and plans. He might have one more …
Remembering Tom Stoppard, The Thinker’s Playwright
Brittany Allen at LitHub: As Michael Billington put it in a remembrance for The Guardian, Stoppard’s unique genius was in taking “seemingly esoteric subjects—from chaos theory to moral philosophy and the mystery of consciousness—and turn[ing] them into witty, inventive and often moving dramas.” He did this with all those feted projects—The Coast of Utopia, The Real Thing, Travesties, Leopoldstadt, and the aforementioned Rosencrantz. (Arcadia was…
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