The Invention of Love is a 1997 play by Tom Stoppard portraying the life of poet A.E. Housman, focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate. The play is written from the viewpoint of Housman dealing with his memories towards the end of his life and contains many classical allusions. Considered by many to be Stoppard's finest play, it has been called "esoteric".

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  • The Invention of Love is a 1997 play by Tom Stoppard portraying the life of poet A.E. Housman, focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate. The play is written from the viewpoint of Housman dealing with his memories towards the end of his life and contains many classical allusions. Considered by many to be Stoppard's finest play, it has been called "esoteric". In fact, to demystify the play's many historical and academic references, the New York production team provided the audiences with a 30-page booklet on the political and artistic history of the late-Victorian period.
  • The Invention of Love è un dramma di Tom Stoppard incentrato sulla vita di A.E. Housman. Da molti è considerato il lavoro migliore di Stoppard.
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  • A.E. Housman, Alfred W. Pollard, Charon, John Ruskin, Benjamin Jowett, Jerome K. Jerome, Henry Labouchere, W. T. Stead, Frank Harris, Robinson Ellis, John Postgate, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde
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  • The river Styx
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  • A.E. Housman
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  • Cover of the Grove Press edition
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  • 1997-10-01 (xsd:date)
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  • The Invention of Love è un dramma di Tom Stoppard incentrato sulla vita di A.E. Housman. Da molti è considerato il lavoro migliore di Stoppard.
  • The Invention of Love is a 1997 play by Tom Stoppard portraying the life of poet A.E. Housman, focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate. The play is written from the viewpoint of Housman dealing with his memories towards the end of his life and contains many classical allusions. Considered by many to be Stoppard's finest play, it has been called "esoteric".
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