Arcadia (play)

Arcadia (English: "Arcadia" ) is a play by Tom Stoppard from the year 1993.

Premiered the piece on 13 April 1993 at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Content

The play takes place 1809-1812 in England in the mansion of the Croom family, which belongs to the English gentry. Sidley Park will be transformed into a romantic landscaped garden, according to the taste of the time. Between the people involved, Lord Byron, the tutor Septimus Hodge, Lady Croom and young Thomasina Coverly, a precocious mathematical-physical genius - all are highly educated and love intellectual debates - creates a firework of witty dialogues. Discussed are problems of the landscape garden, on free will, scientific progress or the right interpretation of the enigmatic award " Et in Arcadia ego " alludes to the pictures of Poussin and the Stoppard in the title of his piece. Sexual attractions arise between the parties, and to weave intrigue, ending with the fact that one of the parties dies in a duel, leaving Lord Byron fled England.

Towards the end of the 20th century, arguing in the same place two Pesonen, a passionate landscape gardener and an ambitious university lecturer in English literature, about the reason which has led to Byron's hasty departure to the continent. The professor claims that Byron had a jealous rival killed in a duel, while his colleague, this argument can not follow and finally unmasked him as untrustworthy and negligent working scientists.

Form

The piece is divided into seven scenes. The action takes place on two different levels of time 1809-1812 and by the end of the twentieth century, however, the scene is always the same, namely, the conservatory or the garden room of the villa Sidley Park.

People

  • Thomasina Coverly, 13 years later 16
  • Septimus Hodge, her teacher, 22, later 25
  • Jellaby, a middle-aged butler
  • Ezra Chater, a poet, 31
  • Richard Noakes, a middle-aged landscape architect
  • Lady Croom, mid-thirties
  • Capt. Brice, RN, mid-thirties
  • Augustus Coverly, 15
  • Hannah Jarvis, an author and historian, in his late thirties
  • Chloë Coverly, 18
  • Bernard Nightingale, a historian, in his late thirties
  • Valentine Coverly, 25 to 30 years old
  • Gus Coverly, 15

Expenditure

  • Arcadia. Übers by Frank Günther. Jussenhoven & Fischer 1993. ISBN 978-3-930226-00-9
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