Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright known for works that incorporate postmodernist literary techniques. Some of his notable plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Travesties (1974), and Arcadia (1993). The document discusses Stoppard's background, select plays, and examines his use of postmodernist concepts through references to his works and Linda Hutcheon's book A Poetics of Postmodernism. It also lists Katherine E. Kelly's edited collection The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, which provides further analysis of Stoppard's body of work.

1. Tom Stoppard (1937- )
Travesties (1974)

2. Born Tomáš Straüssler in 1937.
Left Czechoslovakia in 1939 as refugee from Nazi occupation of the
‘Sudetenland.’
Involved in Charter 77 in 1977.

3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966)
The Real Inspector Hound (1968)
Jumpers (1972)
Travesties (1974)
The Real Thing (1982)
Arcadia (1993)
The Invention of Love (1997)

4. Postmodernism is ‘historiographic metafiction’ – Linda Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon , A Poetics of Postmodernism

5. Linda Hutcheon , A Poetics of Postmodernism

6. Art/politics, Tzara/Carr – pp.19-23, 28-29
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest – p.24, 37, 47, 69-70
Shakespeare, Sonnet 18/dada – pp.35-6
Hamlet, Act I
As You Like It, Act III
Hamlet, Act IV
Much Ado About Nothing, Act V
Henry IV, Part I, Act III
Othello, Act II
Hamlet, Act V
Twelfth Night, Act II
Ulysses, ch.14 Oxen of the Sun – p.2 + ch.17, Ithaca - pp.38-41
Dada principles, pp.40-1
Function of art? Pp.49-51
Revolution and Art, p.57
The Importance of Being Earnest/Mr Gallagher and Mr Sheen, pp.62-5
Missing chapter of Ulysses, deceptions of memory, pp.69-71

7. Katherine E. Kelly (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (CUP, 2001)

8. Katherine E. Kelly (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (CUP, 2001)

9. Katherine E. Kelly (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (CUP, 2001)

10. Katherine E. Kelly (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (CUP, 2001)