Stoppard

American  

[stop-erd] / ˈstɒp ərd /

noun

1. Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.

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Stoppard British  

/ ˈstɒpɑːd /

noun

1. Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)

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Example Sentences

Unlike “Shakespeare in Love,” the script doesn’t have Tom Stoppard punching up the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times

Milne, like Lewis Carroll, was trained as a mathematician, and some of his dialogue reads like Tom Stoppard doing Wittgenstein: “How are you?”

From The Wall Street Journal

The playwright Tom Stoppard was 88 when he died on Nov. 29, but the news came as a shock nonetheless.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A severe blow to Logic” is how a character describes the death of a philosophy professor in Stoppard’s 1972 play “Jumpers.”

From Los Angeles Times

Here Mr. Stoppard managed to impart a few slivers of his deep knowledge of literary history while exploring the universal theme of a love that cannot find expression or recompense.

From The Wall Street Journal