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Arcadia

â€œIt is a defect of Godâ€™s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.â€â€”Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

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 â€œfive hundred acres inclusive of lakeâ€ where Capability Brownâ€™s idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: â€œeverything but vampires,â€ 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 Stoppardâ€™s masterful 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 lifeâ€”â€œthe attraction,â€ as Hannah says, â€œwhich Newton left out.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Grove Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-07-11
Format Kindle eBook