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A Paragraph for Mr Blake,  Best, Eve,  A Separate Peace, , ,  Billington, Michael, ,  A Walk on the Water, – Bond, Edward, ,  A.O.P. (Unpublished Stoppard screenplay),  Brazil (Stoppard screenplay with Terry Gilliam After Magritte,  and Charles McKeown),  Ahmed, Rukhsana,  Brecht, Bertolt, , , , –, , , Albert’s Bridge, , , , , ,   Albery, Donald,  Brenton, Howard, ,  Anna Karenina (Stoppard screenplay of Tolstoy), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), , , , , – ,  ‘Another Country’ (essay), ,  Desert Island Discs interview with Stoppard, Another Moon Called Earth,  – Arcadia, xxiii–xxiv, , , , , , , , , ﬁnancial support for writers, – , , , , –, –, ‘golden age’ of television drama, – , , , , , , , , radio, , , , , See Chapter  , , – television, , See Chapter  chaos theory in, –, –, – Brook, Peter, ,  depiction of Lord Byron, – Bukovsky, Vladimir,  inaugural production, , See Chapter  Burke, Edmund,  mathematics in, , –, – philosophy of history in, – Campton, David,  romance and eros in, – Cats (unproduced Stoppard adaptation), , use of Fermat’s Last Theorem, ,   Artist Descending a Staircase, xxiv, , , , Chalmers, David,  , , , ,  Chaplin,  Attenborough, Richard,  Charter , xxiii, –, ,  Ayckbourn, Alan,  Chekhov, Anton, xxiii, –, , , ,  Ayer, A.J., – Inﬂuence on The Coast of Utopia,  Churchill, Caryl, , ,  Baez, Joan,  Churchill, Winston, , –,  Bains, Harwant,  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,  Bakunin, Mikhail, , , , , ,  communism. See Chapter  Beatles, The,  Connery, Sean,  Beckett, Samuel, xxiii, , , , –, , , Coward, Noël,  , , , , , , , See Czechoslovakia, , , , See Chapter  Chapter  Stoppard’s political involvement in,  Waiting for Godot, xxiii, , –, , ,  Dalliance (Stoppard adaptation of Schnitzler), Belinsky, Vissarion,  ,  Bennett, Alan, ,  Darkside, xxiv–xxv, , , ,  Bentley, Eric,  philosophy in, –

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Descartes, René, , ,  Havel, Václav, xxiii, xxv, , –, , , , Despair (Stoppard screenplay of Nabokov), , , , , –, , , See ,  Chapter  Dickerson, Gordon,  Hegel, G.W.F.,  Dillane, Steven,  Hejdánek, Ladislav,  Din, Ayub Khan,  Hemingway,  Dirty Linen,  Herzen, Alexander, xxiii, , , , , , Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, xxiv–xxv, , , ,  –, , –, ,  Herzl, Theodor, xxi philosophy in, – Hewison, Robert,  Shakespearean influence, – Hitler, Adolf,  Dover Beach (Stoppard),  Hollander, Tom,  Dreyfuss, Richard,  Hytner, Nicholas, ,  Duchamp, Marcel,  If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, xxv, , , Ebert, Roger,   Edinburgh Festival, ,  In the Native State, xxiii, –, –, , Eliot, T.S., , , , ,  , , – Empire of the Sun, , ,  India, , , See Chapter  Engels, Friedrich,  depiction in Indian Ink. See Chapter  England. See Chapter  Indian Ink, xxiii, xxv, , –, , , , post-World War II political situation, – ,  Enigma,  allusions to Oscar Wilde,  Enter a Free Man, , , , colonialism and postcolonialism in, –, See  Chapter  Esslin, Martin, , ,  cultural stereotypes, concerns about, – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, xxv, , , , romance in, – –, , , , , , use of Hobson-Jobson dictionary, – –,  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,  music in,  Ionesco, Eugène, , , ,  existentialism, , ,  Irons, Jeremy,  ITV, –,  Forster, E.M., ,  Ivanov (Stoppard adaptation of Chekhov),  Foucault, Michel,  Frayn, Michael, ,  J.G. Ballard,  Frears, Stephen,  James, P.D.,  Freud, Sigmund, xxi Johnson, Terry,  Friel, Brian,  Jones, Charlotte,  Fugard, Athol,  Joyce, James,  depiction in Travesties, – Grass, Gu¨nter,  Jumpers, xxiii, , , , , , , , Griffiths, Trevor,  –, , , , , –, , Gussow, Mel, , ,   abandoned film version,  Hall, Peter, –,  influence from Samuel Beckett,  Hamlet (Shakespeare), , , , –, , , Macbeth allusion,  , ,  mathematics in, – Hapgood, xxiv, , , , , , , , , philosophy in, – , –, , , , –, ,  Kafka, Franz, , – quantum physics in, –,  Kant, Immanuel, ,  Hare, David, , , , , , , Kendal, Felicity, , , ,   Kipling, Rudyard,  Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas), , , Kohout, Pavel, –, ,  See Chapter  Kureishi, Hanif, 

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Labrune, Jeanne,  Old Vic (London, United Kingdom),  Landovský, Pavel, –,  Oldman, Gary,  Largo Desolato (Stoppard translation of Havel), On the Razzle (Stoppard adaptation of Nestroy), –, , ,  ,  Lawrence, D.H.,  Orton, Joe,  Lean, David,  Osborne, John, , , , ,  Leibniz, Gottfried,  Owen, Alun,  Lenin, Vladimir, xxiii,  as character in Travesties,  Parade’s End (Stoppard teleplay of Ford), , Leopoldstadt, xxi–xxii, xxv, , –, , ,  ,  Stoppard’s Jewish background in, – Pater, Walter,  Lewis, Wyndham,  Payne, Nick,  Lindsay, Robert,  Penelope, xxv Littlewood, Joan,  Pink Floyd, xxv, , , –, , Loach, Ken,   Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon, xxvi, , , , Pinter, Harold, , , , , , ,  , , , See Chapter  Pirandello, Luigi, , , ,  Plastic People of the Universe, The, xxv, , , M Is for Moon Among Other Things,  , , , –, , , ,  Macbeth (Shakespeare), , , ,  Poodle Springs (Stoppard screenplay of Chandler), Malik, Art,   Mamet, David, ,  postmodernism, , , –, , , Marx, Karl, , , , –, –,  –,  Potter, Dennis,  Maugham, Somerset, , ,  Previn, André, , , , , , – May, Robert, , ,  Priestley, J.B.,  Mayakovsky, Vladimir,  Professional Foul, xxv, , , , , , , , McEwan, Ian, ,  –, , , , , –, Miller, Arthur, , , ,  , , , , –, , Molnár, Ferenc, , –,  – Monkees, The, , –,  depiction of journalism in,  Moore, G.E.,  philosophy in, – Morahan, Christopher,  Proust, Marcel,  Morton-Smith, Tom,  Pullman, Philip,  Mrożek, Sławomir,  Murdoch, Iris,  Rattigan, Terence, , ,  Ravenhill, Mark,  Nabokov, Vladimir,  Reagan, Ronald,  National Theatre (United Kingdom), xxvi, , Rock ‘n’ Roll, xxiii, xxv, , , –, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  –, ,  depiction of journalism in, – Nestroy, Johann,  discussion of popular music in, – Neutral Ground, , – neuroscience in,  Newton, Isaac, ,  relationship to Václav Havel, – Nichols, Peter,  Rolling Stones, The,  Nietzsche, Friedrich, , ,  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (film), , Night and Day, xxv, , , , , , , , , –,  , , , –,  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play), discussion of news media in, – xxii–xxv, , –, , , , , , , , Norman, Marc, xxvi, ,  , , –, , , –, , , Nunn, Trevor, , , , , ,  , , , , , , –, , ,  O’Neill, Eugene,  influence from Samuel Beckett, –,  Old Vic (Bristol, United Kingdom), –, , Shakespearean influence, –  Shakesperean intertext, 

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet King Lear, knighthood,  –,  Nazi Party (Germany), escape from, – Roth, Tim,  recipient of PEN/Pinter Prize,  Rough Crossing (Stoppard adaptation of Molnár), Singapore, youth spent in, –,  , See Chapter  Sträussler, Tomáš (birth name), , , , , Royal Court Theatre (United Kingdom), xxvi, ,  , , , , – support for Jewish ‘refuseniks’, , – Royal Shakespeare Company (United Kingdom), works. See individual titles –, , ,  Sträussler, Eugen (Tom Stoppard’s father), –, Rushdie, Salman, ,  ,  Russia. See Chapter  Sträussler, Julius (Tom Stoppard’s paternal Russia House, The (Stoppard screenplay of Le grandfather),  Carré), – Sträussler, Marta (Tom Stoppard’s mother), –, , ,  Sartre, Jean-Paul, ,  Strindberg, August,  Saunders, James,  Schiller, Friedrich,  Tango (Stoppard adaptation of Mrożek), , Schindler’s List,  ,  Schnitzler, Arthur, xxi, ,  Teeth,  Schopenhauer, Arthur,  Thatcher, Margaret, , , , , , Scott, Paul,  –,  Scruton, Roger,  Influence on the arts,  Searle, John,  The Cherry Orchard (Stoppard adaptation of Shakespeare in Love, xxiii, xxvi, , –, , Chekhov),   The Coast of Utopia, xxv, , , –, , , Shakespeare, William, xxiii, –, , , , , , , –, , , , , See Chapter   as character in Shakespeare in Love,  debate about communism in, – Shaw, George Bernard, , –, ,  debate about revolutionary politics in, Shestov, Lev,  – Sibleyras, Gérald,  depiction of journalism in, – Simpson, N.F.,  first Russian production, – Singapore, , , , See Chapter  Salvage, ,  Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton film),  Shipwreck, ,  Smith, Bessie,  Voyage, , ,  Spielberg, Steven, ,  The Dissolution of Dominic Boot, ,  Spivak, Gayatri,  The Dog It Was That Died, ,  Squaring the Circle, xxv, , , , , , The Gamblers, – –, , ,  The Hard Problem, xxiv, , , , , Star Wars Episode III –, , , ,  Revenge of the Sith,  depiction of neuroscience, – Stein, Gertrude,  philosophy in,  Stephens, Simon,  prisoner’s dilemma in, – Stephenson, Shelagh,  The House of Bernarda Alba (Stoppard adaptation Stoppard, Ed (Tom Stoppard’s son), xxi of García Lorca), ,  Stoppard, Kenneth (Tom Stoppard’s stepfather), The Invention of Love, xxiii–xxiv, , –, , , ,  –, , –, –, , , Stoppard, Peter (Tom Stoppard’sbrother),–,  , , ,  Stoppard, Tom depiction of journalism in,  Bristol, professional life in, – homosexual relationships in, – conservatism, , , , , , , The Real Inspector Hound, , , , , , ,  , –, ,  Czech background, xxiii The Real Thing, xxiv, , , , , , , Czech dissidents, support of, – –, , , –, , Jewish background, xxi–xxii, , , – –, , , , 

Index 

 radio adaptation,  Velvet Underground, The,  discussion of popular music in, – Verma, Jatinder,  The Seagull (Stoppard adaptation of Chekhov), , ,  Webber, Andrew Lloyd, ,  Three Men in a Boat (Stoppard adaptation of Weldon, Fay,  Jerome),  Wesker, Arnold, , ,  Tolstoy, Leo, xxiii,  Where Are They Now?, , ,  Travesties, xxiii–xxiv, , , , , , , , Who, The,  , , , , , , , –, Wilde, Oscar, xxiii, , , , , , –, –, , , , , , See Chapter  , , ,  as character in The Invention of Love, xxiii, , Absurdism in, –  interpretation of Oscar Wilde, – Williams, Ralph Vaughan,  metabiography in, – Williams, Raymond,  modernism in. See Chapter  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, , , , , , politics in, –, –  Shakesperean inﬂuence,  language game in Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s trolley problem,  Macbeth, – Tulip Fever, ,  Wood, John,  Turgenev, Ivan, –, –,  Wood, Peter, , –, Tynan, Kenneth, , , , , , , ,   Wordsworth, William,  Tzara, Tristan, ,  Wright, Joe, ,  depiction in Travesties, – Zappa, Frank,  Undiscovered Country (Stoppard adaptation of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (Tom Stoppard’s Schnitzler), ,  birthplace), , , , 