ENG341H1 Lecture Notes - Libido, Anglophile, Gazebo
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This play is very much structured like a symphony. Iteration over time is a major philosophical question within the play. Became kind of an obsessed anglophile, sort of more british than the british. Most people know him best from rosencrantz and gildenstern are dead, where he somewhat tried to do. Stoppard is a philosophical playwright, participates in what is called the play of ideas. He"s also interested in finding order within chaos, all the questions beckett was interested. Stoppard doesn"t want to decide that inhabiting this universe is always a bad thing, is not as absolutely pessimistic as beckett. Just because the world is indecipherable shouldn"t be dejecting, it just stimulate our intellectual curiosity. A lot of the action in this play is filling in gaps in a world that doesn"t seem to make sense, thomasina and the latin passages. Sometimes you can fill in gaps with things that aren"t true, but there is a kind of adventure to it.
