EAN: 9780571169344

TOM STOPPARD - GEBRAUCHT ARCADIA (HORS CATALOGU...

In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits 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 on our orbits in life - 'the attraction'  as Hannah says  'which
Newton left out'.

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