The invention of love / Tom Stoppard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoppard, Tom

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936--Drama.

Housman, A. E.

Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

v pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 102 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Grove Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1998]

Summary:

Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard's new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".

Notes:

"First Grove Press edition September 1998."

"Cover design by Charles Rue Woods."

Originally published by Faber and Faber Limited 1997.

"The text is slightly altered from the first edition in places where I have brought it into line with the performance at the Royal National Theatre."--Note to Second Edition.

"'The Invention of Love' opened at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, on 25 September 1997 ... 'The Invention of Love' had its American Premier at the American Conservatory Theater (Carey Perloff, Artistic Director), at the Geary Theater, San Francisco, on January 6, 2000 ..."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has "Open Stages, the Newsletter of the Wilma Theater" January/February 2000 issue laid in.

ISBN:

0802135811

OCLC:

39275853