Arcadia; Author: Stoppard, Tom; Paperback

Author: Stoppard, Tom
1; Paperback
128 pages
Published: May 1993
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN: 0571169341

In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sit Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later.Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park.Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex oTom Stoppard's new play is set in a large country house in Derbyshire, where a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. Tom Stoppard's new play is set in a large country house in Derbyshire, where a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas.This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time.