Leopoldstadt - Softcover

Stoppard, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802157718 ISBN 13: 9780802157713

Verlag: Black Cat, 2020

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**WINNER OF THE TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY**

“Breathtaking . . . A play that asks what we owe our own imperfect memories . . . An epic, formatively brilliant work.”—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking play of love, family and endurance.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, Leopoldstadt is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion.

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Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade’s End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina.

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• Verlag: Black Cat
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802157718
• ISBN 13: 9780802157713
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 101
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